Education websites

I found some information on the education websites that were given to us in class last week. I found info about what the Abbott decision is, which was a case in New Jersey about funding in urban school districts. Essentially, the case was about equal education oppurtunity for every student that lives in an urban district. One thing that the Abbott decision that I got from the article is that the schools that are part of Abbott have to offer pre-school. Universal pre-school is a good thing for any school district, because it lets students start learning earlier rather than later.
The NCLB section of the ed.gov website was interesting. The government is trying to reauthorize NCLB, and they are hoping to make some improvements to it. They want to close the achievement gap, they want to better prepare students for post secondary education and the workforce, and they want to restructure underperforming schools and give parents more options. All of these things sound good, but I am not certain about how well this will be received. Our discussion last week in class about how idealist ideas about how to fix our education system sometimes don't pan out when it becomes policy. I believe a way more pragmatic approach to NCLB would make more sense, rather than throwing niceties at the reader and telling them "this will work".