Corridor Of Shame
About 10 miles south of the North Carolina border just off Interstate 95 is the community of Dillion, South Carolina. Dillion is considered by some to be the focal point of a so-called Corridor of the Shame.
The Dillion Central school has about 50 percent of their students reading two or three grades below level and a dropout rate of 50 percent.
Democratic president candidate, John Edwards would seek to solve the education crises in America by dramatically changing “No Child Left Behind.” He would continue to evaluate each individual student’s progress, but make the teachers central to that evaluation. Edwards opposes the present system of testing, which uses cheap standardized tests to measure one group of children against another.
It’s imperative to get children on the right track early and keep them on the right track until they graduate. Universal pre-K, should be available for every 4-year-old in America, in order to get them started on the right track. The earlier we’re able to get children on the right track the better, because some children may started dropping out of school, when they’re in second or third grade.
We should be helping the schools that are struggling, by sending in education SWAT teams with the money and expertise to turn the under performing schools around. By the time students gets to high school, they have often gotten so far behind that you can’t make up the difference.
Edwards suggests second-chance schools, which would give bonuses to teachers who agree to teach in the most difficult schools. Second-chance schools, would employ our most talented teachers. Edwards insists we need a national teaching university where we give state-of-the-art education to educators, and send those teachers out to the places like Corridor of the Shame.
The Dillion Central school has about 50 percent of their students reading two or three grades below level and a dropout rate of 50 percent.
Democratic president candidate, John Edwards would seek to solve the education crises in America by dramatically changing “No Child Left Behind.” He would continue to evaluate each individual student’s progress, but make the teachers central to that evaluation. Edwards opposes the present system of testing, which uses cheap standardized tests to measure one group of children against another.
It’s imperative to get children on the right track early and keep them on the right track until they graduate. Universal pre-K, should be available for every 4-year-old in America, in order to get them started on the right track. The earlier we’re able to get children on the right track the better, because some children may started dropping out of school, when they’re in second or third grade.
We should be helping the schools that are struggling, by sending in education SWAT teams with the money and expertise to turn the under performing schools around. By the time students gets to high school, they have often gotten so far behind that you can’t make up the difference.
Edwards suggests second-chance schools, which would give bonuses to teachers who agree to teach in the most difficult schools. Second-chance schools, would employ our most talented teachers. Edwards insists we need a national teaching university where we give state-of-the-art education to educators, and send those teachers out to the places like Corridor of the Shame.
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