Sentences with phrase «soft bigotry of»

Any comment on the soft bigotry of low expectations needs to take into account those who craft castles in the clouds.

This rationing of education and soft bigotry of low expectations for poor and minority kids would eventually trickle down into the rest of American public education in the form of ability - tracking and even special education.

When teachers protested that students from disadvantaged backgrounds tend not to test well, having not had the benefit of tutors and test - prep programs, GWB said they were making «excuses,» showing «the soft bigotry of low expectations.»

If you say poverty is a contributing factor to poor test scores (and in fact it is THE SOLE FACTOR in poor American test scores), you are accused of «the soft bigotry of low expectations.»

[Update: Katie Haycock of the Education Trust (which has gotten into trouble for its role in helping the administration define proficiency down as well as developing the Plessy v. Ferguson - like Cut the Gap in Half approach that is subjecting poor and minority kids to the soft bigotry of low expectations), is now going to say that she doesn't like the direction of of the administration's gambit; EdTrust has also released a report criticizing the effort thus far.]

No Child Left Behind, on the books since 2002, was supposed to close achievement gaps for disadvantaged students (racial and ethnic minorities, low - income students, youngsters with special needs and English learners) and to eliminate what President George W. Bush decried as «the soft bigotry of low expectations.»

Former President Bush's catchy rhetoric of «soft bigotry of low expectations» belies the hard evidence associated with assessments in discriminatory practices across our country.

«I fear that the soft bigotry of low expectations is returning, and for the sake of America's children, that is something we can not allow.

President Bush used the phrase «soft bigotry of low expectations» as a way to explain the need for this legislation, which required all states to see whether their students were meeting the standards of their states.

But in the United States over the past decade, it became fashionable among supporters of the «no excuses» approach to school improvement to accuse anyone raising the poverty issue of letting schools off the hook — or what Mr. Bush famously called «the soft bigotry of low expectations.»

The failing teacher likely succumbed to «the soft bigotry of low expectations.»

This is the «soft bigotry of low expectations» in action.

This particular effort at proficiency down is contradictory to Common Core's ultimate goal of ending the soft bigotry of low expectations against poor and minority children.

Former President George W. Bush used to use that great phrase, «the soft bigotry of low expectations.»

By not holding the Obama administration's feet to the fire on the waivers, reformers have ceded plenty of moral and intellectual high ground, essentially promoting the very soft bigotry of low expectations that they declare they oppose.

This isn't to say that these officials don't care about these children, but that they are disinterested in taking on the tough work needed to overhaul districts and schools in order provide kids with the schools they deserve — which includes challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations for poor and minority kids held by far too many adults working in American public education in Virginia and the rest of the nation, and the affiliates of the National Education Association which has succeeded for so long in keeping the Old Dominion's status quo quite ante.

But the fact that the Obama administration granted Virginia a waiver in the first place in spite of its record of obstinacy on systemic reform, along with the fact that many of the 32 other states granted waivers (along with the District of Columbia) have also set low expectations for districts and schools to improve the achievement of the poor and minority kids in their care, has put President Obama in the uncomfortable position of supporting the soft bigotry of low expectations for children — especially those who share his race and skin color.

Division leaders understood the soft bigotry of low expectations and the calamitous result it could have on their minority and other underserved students.

Many people (including influential educators) still think that a large Pygmalion effect is out there, waiting to be tapped if only we can get teachers to shed «the soft bigotry of low expectations,» as the rhetoric of No Child Left Behind puts it.

President George W. Bush meaningfully described this phenomenon of setting different standards for certain kids as «the soft bigotry of low expectations.»

«The national objective is to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations and to raise the standards for every single child,» says Bush.

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More outcry is likely to come in the coming months as reformers and civil rights activists in D.C., Tennessee and other states learn how the waiver gambit has essentially allowed states to damn children through the soft bigotry of low expectations.

The «soft bigotry of low expectations» has been replaced with an emphasis on student achievement for all students by requiring the disaggregation of performance data by race, gender, and socioeconomic status.

ConnCAN CEO Jennifer Alexander with a great piece on CT Viewpoints today: Soft bigotry of low expectations has no place in Connecticut.

And I'm far from alone in believing that this soft bigotry of low expectations will prove yet another impediment for students who are eligible for special education services.

No Child Left Behind, which had strong bipartisan backing when it passed in 2001, was the signature education initiative of George W. Bush, who said the failure of public schools to teach poor students and minorities reflected the «soft bigotry of low expectations.»

«It reflects this soft bigotry of low expectations around student effort and student behavior,» said Michael Petrilli, president of the Fordham Institute, a right - leaning think tank.

Some minority parents agree, asserting that lower standards for their children is a form of prejudice, the «soft bigotry of low expectations» as former President George W. Bush called it.

To call this goal unrealistic is to abandon millions of children to what President Bush has so aptly termed the soft bigotry of low expectations.

The «soft bigotry of low expectations,» prevalent in many troubled urban schools, has no place in Catholic education.

Jeb Bush is the leader in a movement that promotes the «soft bigotry of low expectations.»

Perhaps the intentions behind these policies are pure, but they amount to the soft bigotry of low expectations when it comes to student effort and responsibility.

President George W. Bush famously criticized the «soft bigotry of low expectations» in support of his education - reform agenda.

While some may argue that creating separate accountability frameworks for alternative schools is unfair to the students that they serve — another example of the soft bigotry of low expectations — the current situation is untenable.

«We need to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Commentators like Mike Petrilli are right to point out the risk, then, that making it impossible to fail reeks of the «soft bigotry of low expectations.»

Bush and congressional Republicans called for an end to the «soft bigotry of low expectations» and a focus on achievement outcomes.

It's this hypocrisy that is the soft bigotry of low expectations.»

Not exact matches

Senate Democrats are facing growing pressure to break the white male stranglehold on senior staff positions in their ranks — a push that's uniting consultants and lobbyists inside the Beltway with Black Lives Matter and other minority leaders who are accusing the party of «soft bigotry.»

Duncan juxtaposed his own position (encapsulated, in his view, by a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. line) with the «soft bigotry» of low expectations that he associates with the delegation of most K — 12 authority to states.

But it's more than that: it's bureaucratic jargon designed to render opaque an uninterrupted tradition of soft bigotry and low expectations.

Many critics and policymakers blame the persistence of the achievement gap not on these harsh discipline practices or grueling testing regimes, but rather on the continued low expectations of educators — that «soft bigotry» that President Bush condemned back in 1999.

Below, Gerhardt Pearson, a Cape York traditional owner, responds to Dutton's comments, and describes the continuing burden of «soft bigotry and low expectations».