Title: What Arne Duncan Thinks of No Child Left Behind: The new education secretary talks about the controversial law and financial aid forms
Summary: Arne Duncan, Education Secretary, breaks down the walls enclosing No Child Left Behind and gives a summary of how we are going to fix the problems with the use of the new federal stimulus for schools.
Topic: http://msaraceno.wordpress.com/question/
Category: This is a journalistic source. This source also provides a good picture of Arne Duncan.
What is it? This is an online article published for U.S. News.
Publication Information: The article is published on the U.S. news and world report website. Published on February 5, 2009.
Author: Eddy Ramirez and Kim Clark. Both authors have a plethora of articles involving education at varying levels, including elementary through post-secondary.
Published on February 5, 2009
Accessed: February 22, 2009
Support: The writers were doing a report on what Duncan’s plans were for education. The only support throughout the article is Duncan himself. Duncan is quoted throughout the article almost like a straight interview format. There is not a paragraph without a reference to Duncan and his opinion of education and the federal stimulus as it pertains to such.
Although Duncan’s opinion is important, a secondary voice would have helped build credibility of Duncan—or taken away credibility. Since Duncan is considered the policy-making expert, his opinion is probably the most important to the public, which is why it was reported; however, the article only provides a political regime lacking real world believability in the actions to follow.
Audience and Agenda: The audience is adults at an age of 48 years old (median) favoring males. The audience is also mainly people considered middle class. This is a standard journalistic source providing information to the public through ethical standards of practice. The funding is provided through advertising with this online publication. Although it does not list specific advertisers, U.S. news is probably obligated to report on things not affecting its corporate sponsors. Thus, the ethical standards of journalistic sources as such are very hard to analyze in terms of what they are leaving out.
Usefulness: The article is a very current take on what is to be expected from Arne Duncan. The insight defines him and his views creating a one-way description of how he is planning to proceed through the current economic crisis. Although secondary opinion is left out, the article provides a thoughtful and current tone to the question I am asking. Importantly, the article shows Duncan’s views of the problems with the current law and the assessment aspect of the No Child Left Behind package. Since Title I-A is based on this assessment, No Child Left Behind is directly related to Title I as it is pertaining to the funding of the program as a whole and what is keeping it from succeeding. The article has shown me that if Duncan is aware of such malfunctions then the forward motions may consume my topic and fix it before money is given out; however, this is not a solid source to determine such. Duncan relates a lot of the problems to the fact that we have 50 independent methods of using this law when schools should really be on a one-minded track of operation. This is very important considering the shift would move into the federal government’s hands and away from state-to-state power, which from the sounds of Duncan could be a solution in and of itself. This source also provides a good picture of Education Secretary Arne Duncan. The picture is a filler but useful in showing people who exactly the actor is in the education reforms.
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