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Melvin Adams posted on 2/15/2011 3:08:00 PM
It is time for Americans to realize that the government and its programs are not our best solutions. If education were privatized and put to the free market, it would be amazing the changes we would see - and most would be positive.
keith williams posted on 1/29/2011 2:21:00 PM
Gentlemen, please also remember that the PSSA test, its scoring, and all the related empirical data in the world absolutely MUST NOT be your basis for "quality" education. I don't care if every single Philly kid scores "Advanced" on the PSSA; I can tell you as an educator myself that I'd be even less inclined to send my kids to such a school. Kids are learning to take a test --nothing more, nothing less. Be careful what you wish for. Next thing you know, we'll have federal standards to compare testing among all the states.
Ed Stem posted on 7/21/2010 1:58:00 PM
The Superintendent of Philly schools announced that PSSA Reading scores for 3rd graders declined in 2010!
Given the hundreds of millions in spending Pennsylvania has focused on Early Childhood programs: Full Day K, PreK Counts AND Head Start, I expected a significant INCREASE in reading scores and math scores in third grade. These children have been in all these programs.
The decline of these scores calls into question the lofty claims of the Governor, the PDE and the early childhood education mandate advocates that these interventions will yield stellar growth results.
While there may indeed be some value for some children in providing taxpayer funded early childhood education, it is NO UNIVERSAL PANACEA to the challenges of our ineffective public education system.
Joseph Blatt posted on 6/30/2010 1:49:00 PM
This disgusts me! We are paying for the teachers not the students! We need someone in Harrisburg to stand up for us.
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