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Post by Vene on Dec 13, 2011 11:22:11 GMT -5
At the military base schools, 39 percent of fourth graders were scored as proficient in reading, compared with 32 percent of all public school students.
Even more impressive, the achievement gap between black and white students continues to be much smaller at military base schools and is shrinking faster than at public schools. So, how the fuck do they do it? They would find that the schools on base are not subject to former President George W. Bush’s signature education program, No Child Left Behind, or to President Obama’s Race to the Top. They would find that standardized tests do not dominate and are not used to rate teachers, principals or schools.
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Ms. Kapiko has been a principal both inside and outside the gates and believes that military base schools are more nurturing than public schools. “We don’t have to be so regimented, since we’re not worried about a child’s ability to bubble on a test,” she said.
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Helping children succeed academically is about a lot more than what goes on inside the schools. Military parents do not have to worry about securing health care coverage for their children or adequate housing. At least one parent in the family has a job.
The military command also puts a priority on education. Bryant Anderson, a petty officer who is stationed at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Va., is given time off from work to serve as president of the base’s school board and coach middle school basketball and track teams.
Parents with children at the civilian schools where Ms. Kapiko has been the principal have not received that kind of support from their employers. “If Dad works in a factory, he gets three absences and he’s fired,” she said.
A family’s economic well-being has considerable impact on how students score on standardized tests, and it is hard to make exact comparisons between military and public school families. But by one indicator, families at military base schools and public schools have similar earnings: the percentage of students who qualify for federally subsidized lunches is virtually identical at both, about 46 percent. They're damn dirty hippies, that's how. www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/education/military-children-outdo-public-school-students-on-naep-tests.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=all |
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Post by Shane for Wax on Dec 13, 2011 11:33:02 GMT -5
Yeah, the schooling on military bases was a lot better than the civilian schooling I ran into after I could no longer go on base for school.
It was kind of a shock actually to have such a sudden change in the ways of schooling...
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Post by Vene on Dec 13, 2011 11:58:18 GMT -5
I personally love how military schools are less regimented than public schools.
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Post by brendanrizzo on Dec 13, 2011 12:02:31 GMT -5
I personally love how military schools are less regimented than public schools. Ah, the irony. |
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Dec 13, 2011 14:59:53 GMT -5
Oh hey, I like what I see and I think it should be used more often.
Which is precisely why it probably won't ever get used because GOD.
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Post by tgrwulf on Dec 13, 2011 15:39:54 GMT -5
I personally love how military schools are less regimented than public schools. Ah, the irony. That struck me as well. |
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Post by Shano on Dec 13, 2011 16:25:01 GMT -5
Um I may be misunderstadning something here, but I am under the impression that these are schools for children of military personnel and not schools for military education (which are the ones I would call military schools). I highly doubt that what I would call a military school is less regimented than any public school.
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Post by N. De Plume on Dec 13, 2011 16:30:38 GMT -5
Heh, heh. Hippie Military. ;D
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Post by Shane for Wax on Dec 13, 2011 16:39:04 GMT -5
Um I may be misunderstadning something here, but I am under the impression that these are schools for children of military personnel and not schools for military education (which are the ones I would call military schools). I highly doubt that what I would call a military school is less regimented than any public school. It's why I personally like to call them military base schools so as not to be confused for military school like you're threatened with if you misbehave. |
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Post by The_L on Dec 13, 2011 19:36:08 GMT -5
Yeah, my mom taught at a DoDDS 25 years ago and loved it.
Upon returning to the States with Dad and realizing how bad public schools had gotten, she swore then that my brother and I would only go to private schools.
I know I say a lot of shit about my A Beka "education," but it's still better than what my cousin got at the local public school. Which is terrifying.
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Post by Vene on Dec 13, 2011 20:56:24 GMT -5
That is terrifying, I'm glad the public school I went to wasn't like that. But, I was in a northern state and not the Bible Belt.
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Post by Thejebusfire on Dec 13, 2011 21:35:09 GMT -5
This actually does not surprize me.
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Post by priestling on Dec 13, 2011 22:02:28 GMT -5
As a teacher's kid... I think I have the right to be insulted by just how BAD these schools are.
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Post by queenofhearts on Dec 13, 2011 23:48:17 GMT -5
Meh, I think part of the reason for the better schooling is the better conditions of parents (which the article alludes to). One parent has guaranteed income, guaranteed housing, guaranteed health care, and the like. It also helps that schools on military bases have much smaller class sizes and more professional teachers (at least from my experience with Dahlgren. I never thought my alma mater would get any recognition) .
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Dec 14, 2011 1:12:48 GMT -5
I know I say a lot of shit about my A Beka "education," but it's still better than what my cousin got at the local public school. Which is terrifying. This is unacceptable in any country that can even consider itself first world. And yet society marches straight into the jaws of unfettered capitalism... |
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