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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We could start by getting rid of Test Optional (cant wait to read about this nonsense in the history books - justifiied by it's "too easy" to fake with testing but total un-uniform GPAs are more reliable).  We could start with lengthening the school day and the school year. Getting rid of retests and No-Fail policies. Strong intervention in early elementary for kids falling behind. Less focus on playing 3 travel sports and more focus on education and learning (not just rote memory but true education). Empahsis on critical thinking. Bring back cursive writing. No Cell Phones in schools. Get rid of Teachers Unions and pay good teachers 100-150K a year. Fire low results teachers. Make measurements public for both schools and teachers.  Limit class sizes to 25. Have chatGPT write the curriculms so they arent dull, as they often are. [/quote]

How exactly do you plan to define "low results"?  Like "NCLB" where if kids are not at or above grade level the teacher has failed?  How about in a 90%+ FARMS school where the kids enter 2nd grade with 70% of the class at the K reading level.  Well if that teacher takes those kids to end of 1st grade or early 2nd grade reading level by the end of 2nd grade, they have stellar accomplishments ---they have completed what others have not done, despite the kids still being "below grade level". Yet that was punished with NCLB, and still is---there are more issues than just school for many kids, until you fix the early learning and home life (seriously, hard to study if you are worried about gunfire coming thru your living room window nightly or if mom's latest BF is going to beat the crap out of her and/or you and your siblings). 
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Your last point is pure bs. The Harlem Children Zone should just be replicated nationally in these urban district. Even in dangerous neighborhoods, education access can be improved without improving households.[/quote]

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