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American Progress Vs Heritage Foundation

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Quality K-12 education is one of the most important things that the United States has to offer its citizens. There are many factors that go into deciding how and what kind of education children in the United States should be receiving, and there are many groups, called think tanks, that do research and offer ideas on how to improve education. Two of the most prominent education think thanks are the Center for American Progress (CAP) and the Heritage Foundation. Both think tanks work to improve American education, but there are many factors that cause the policies supported by the Heritage Foundation to be more favorable than those supported …show more content…

This would allow state’s to focus on issues that they know are important to its school districts and focus directly on those issues instead of using funding for what the federal government demands. The foundation says that “instead of continuing to spend the nearly $25 billion in federal funding that is authorized under NCLB on dozens of ineffective and duplicative federal programs, A-PLUS would give states the option to decline participation in NCLB and focus that spending on the education initiatives that work for their …show more content…

The act would eliminate “adequate yearly progress”, which under No Child Left Behind, means utilizing standardized each year to determine whether students are proficient in reading and math. This testing often causes teachers to “teach to the test” and forces all children to learn at the same level, whether they are prepared to or not. The act also “empowers states to design school improvement strategies” by limiting federal intervention into underperforming schools by ending the School Improvement Grant Program (SIG). The SIG “contained four federally mandated school ‘turn-around’ models designed by the Obama Administration to prescribe the types of interventions states have to use to improve outcomes at underperforming schools.” The SSA eliminates the SIG program and allows states to put their own improvement strategies in

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