sábado, 2 de febrero de 2013

The educational war in America

International The great dispute in United States The educational war in America By: Carlos Damian January 4, 2012 The educational system moves to schools charter Mexico.- This educational war is already 20 years old discussing and generating charter schools to the long and wide of the country, as alternative to the private sector of the country, being financed by managers and foundations, among which we can highlight to Bill Gates (Microsoft), the family Walton (of Walmart), Marck Zuckerberg (Facebook), and Eli Broad (its fortune comes from the insurance company Sun Life), and Michael Bloomberg (of Bloomberg, and current mayor from new York), the ex president George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Duncan Love and some more than they escape to the memory of the typewriter. All these mentioned characters have invested money and time in programs to privatize, denominated charter schools at the present time. Besides these financings of thousands of millions of dollars to Think thank, educational experts' groups, mercenary politicians and journalists according to these cloudy handlings of the teaching. All as a great union the politicians already define and between their lines they are the main citizens that are in positions decisive executives in the country. Although in this support to this group of reformers, it has united a dangerous group that promotes reformations to establish the managerial pattern and it conditions their tax substantives to political around the support to initiatives of the “educational war", and without any educational experience: the financial sector. A profitable and productive business Since the former president George W. Bush promulgated “No child left behind”, where the use settles down from the results of state standardized exams to students to measure the acting of teachers and schools that it takes to the dismissed of educational in some cases and until the closing of educational facilities. Being carried out these guidelines from 2002, becoming central piece from the reformation movement to the public teaching. With this antecedent it has put under an obligation to that the teachers and administrators dedicate more and more time, attention and effort to these tests of the federation that determine the future of the administrators in turn, the educational ones, the students, and of the same school. In turn Barack Obama for not lagging behind in the interest for the future of the education, put under an obligation to the education secretary to formulate a called program RTT (Race to the top), which promotes the competition among states to enlarge the use of these exams, the elaboration of measures and programs for the statistical evaluation of students and teachers with base in such educational tests and certainly the creation of more charter schools in exchange for federal funds. In this educational environment they have been formed the NCLB and RTT like crowns of the managerial movement that are reforming the educational system. This managerial movement argues that with base in these reformations, the teachers will be evaluated with objectivity and now it is had a process to give recounts and advances to the American national educational system. It is incredible that an educational system as the American is based on some exams that are in discussion for the slanted information that one obtains; you will obtain the statistic and results that you want if the reformers have created them. In this circumstance it is that the critics of the educational reformations, question that these neoliberal politicians go for the side of the business, and in no way with the function and purpose of the public education. Also to confront their arguments, they mention numerous studies, data and investigations that the reformations have not generated the engaged results, and that the diagnosis and the recipes made by the reformers have serious errors in their evaluation. The dispute against the fiscal deficit The States and the financial markets breathed of relief this Wednesday (01/02/13), for the agreement reached among democratic and republican that avoids the “fiscal abyss", although the president noticed that it is only the first battle of a war against the fiscal deficit. When being approved in the Senate, and later the project was ratified in the Chamber of Representatives, what avoided the automatic entrance the first of January of the rise of taxes and important cuttings in help for the people, Obama announced that it would sign the text. The promulgation of the law can be in person with the technique from the “automatic pen” to distance, to which the president has already appealed. However, if the plan avoided the consequences of the “fiscal abyss” for the American and world economy, it is a postponement, since the global cutting of 10 percent in the public expense is only postponed during two months. The teachers cannot be measured in their acting by simple standardized exams that it is the pattern reformer's axis, and this has been indicated by the Rand Corporation and the agency of investigations has more than enough methods of school evaluation of the National Academy of Sciences. In this line of irregularities it has been revealed that in New York, Chicago, Houston, Washington, they have been manipulated to the whim of the reformists, the results of the exams that they points out the success of its fool reformations. In this bias of information we can find that the public education is under it attacks of the forces of the privatization, people that comes from the medieval, retrograde time that they point out us like tests of good success its reformations with clearings financial and commercial interests. (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 2- 3, January 3, 2013).

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