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I got interested in the Elementary and Secondary Act (ESEA) (Elementary and Secondary Education Act, n.d.) while researching “Rural Education Equity”. The ESEA was first enacted in 1965 and was reauthorized in 2002. The ESEA for all practical purposes replaces the now defunct No Child Left Behind Act.
ESEA has some components that would help schools in rural areas. Schools in rural areas are often low-income or face other obstacles such as: distance from resources, little or no access to Internet and/or technology and little or no access to professional development for teachers. The ESEA may offer funds to close the learning and opportunity gap between better funded or centrally located students and their counter parts who live rurally and/or come from a family with fewer resources.
The National Education Association published an article encouraging educators to be vocal about inequity in their schools. The article “Educators need to speak up louder for school equity, says civil rights expert” by Tim Walker (Walker, n.d.). The authors believes teachers are not vocal enough. This made me think about my voice in the matter. I have never spoken up on this issue. I do believe that teachers and teachers’ groups could do a lot to help their students obtain access to resources by speaking up. The American Federation of Teachers’ website has an ad right on page one asking for donations to ESEA so it is safe to say, the two have some common goals. ESEA is well discussed on the AFT website with their offering of a variety of research sources and media.
The Council of Chief of State School Officer’s website (Council of Chief State School Officers, n.d.) clearly support the House’s actions on ESEA. Randi Weingarten has a blog on the American Federation of Teachers’ site (Getting back to the real purpose of ESEA, n.d.) that does a good job of explaining the purpose of ESEA. My search of ESEA on the UNESCO site took me to a google custom search which, admittedly had a supply of work about ESEA. The UNICEF site only brought up one article about ESEA however, that one article seems to say that ESEA is a revised act formally known as the No Child Left Behind Act (Furniss). I thought ESEA was drafted after the No Child Left Behind policy. {Funny, just a little aside- when I went to the UNICEF site I realized I did not know this acronym. I search all over the site for the meaning of UNICEF. Soon I became obsessed; I searched for fifteen minutes or so before giving up. I then found a site that had tons of acronyms and their descriptions Educational Acronyms but, even this site doesn’t give the description of UNICEF. Good thing my cohort Professor spelled it out for me- United Nations (International) Childrens Fund. The OECD website has a nice variety of ESEA research sources, lots of information on my topic and easy to navigate.
Now here is what surprised me, during my ESEA research I ran across a link to a video that connects Common Core teaching standards to the UN (United Nations), and the UN to NWO (New World Order). The speaker was convincing however, I need to add a disclaimer, I haven’t researched past this video yet. Do your own research – as will I- and tell me what you think of these connections or whether there are connections at all. CLICK HERE, Youtube.com video titled Common Core: Based on UN Agenda 21, UNESCO Standards, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNeimlu9jxk
Until later, Mathteacher 988
References
Council of Chief State School Officers. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.ccsso.org/Search_Results.html?q=esea
Elementary and Secondary Education Act. (n.d.). Retrieved from Ed.Gov: http://www.ed.gov/esea
Furniss, E. (n.d.). Assessing Learning Achievement. Retrieved from chrome-extension://gbkeegbaiigmenfmjfclcdgdpimamgkj/views/app.html
Getting back to the real purpose of ESEA. (n.d.). Retrieved from American Federation of Teachers: http://www.aft.org/blog/randi/real-purpose-esea
Walker, T. (n.d.). Opportunity for all. Retrieved from Nea.org: http://www.nea.org/equity
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