re: It's way past time to overhaul our education system

I have heard of some other options such as giving class free time to work on problems and that time could be used to help those that are behind.

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My wife uses creative scheduling, pull-outs, interventions and data analysis. She's pretty damn good at it. She has 80% free/reduced lunch population and her school is doing things the teachers said were impossible 5 years ago. She has good teachers, but she made some teachers uncomfortable enough for them to move on. And once you see success, you get buy-in at a staff level and it can change the whole climate of a building.

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I'm glad to see schools using data analysis in the correct way.

East Baton Rouge Parish schools have tinkered in it, but they haven't done a good job explaining how it should work to the teachers. I'm afraid a good idea is going to go down the tube here because of poor implementation. My friends grandmother is a teacher and I've had to spend a lot of time trying to decipher what exactly the school board is asking her to do as far as gathering data and using that data.

Has she been able to track a change in parent participation? I would wonder if the parent problem starts to solve its' self when their child is seeing success in the classroom.

In a lot of areas I hold the belief of telling those that need help how they are going to be helped and then proving it to them. Once it is proven to work I believe they start to buy in to the system.