Source Form #21

Title:  Many States Leave Behind Education Law

 

http://www.educationnewssite.com/education-law/many-states-leave-behind-education-law.html

 

Summary:  This blog accounts for many schools putting the curve of fixing requirements for proficiency levels of NCLB too far into the future—the final years approaching 2014.

 

Topic: http://msaraceno.wordpress.com/question/

 

Category:  This is a citizen source.

 

What is it? This is a blog specifically geared toward education topics.

 

Publication Information:  This blog is from a publication in Education Law.  The article was published in May 2008.

 

Author:  A specific author is not given for this article.  The article was posted by the Admin. 

 

Location:  http://www.educationnewssite.com/education-law/many-states-leave-behind-education-law.html

 

Accessed:  March 1, 2009

 

Support:  The Center on Education Policy (CEP) is used as a source of the 2002 report requiring schools to reach proficiency levels by 2014.  There report was used to get schools on track for meeting the goals along the way.

 

Jack Jennings, president and CEO of CEP.  Jennings is used to provide information of how impossible it is for the schools to meet this proficiency requirement in the current structure of things.

 

Gene Evans, spokesman for the Oregon Department of Education.  Evans is used to provide reason to why Oregon may be behind the proficiency levels at the moment and how they were planning to overcome the hurdles ahead. 

 

The sources provide external sources as to how this blogger is relating information.  It is almost as if it is a journalistic source in the format provided; however, the depth of the information is in more of a hyperlink fashion.  With a use of CEP and then the president of CEP speaking readers get a good view of what their ideas on proficiency levels is all about. Evans is taken into account, as Oregon is a state that is behind, to provide reasons for why and how they are planning to “catch up.”

Audience and Agenda:  This is a blog and a very non-existent explanation is given as to who the audience is assumed to be.  From the information accessible on this blog the audience would be people interested in education on many different platforms—current and past.  The funding for this blog is unimportant as it is free expression of what the person wants to post and does not look to be directly linked to funding except for the add space used (which is all relative to education).

 

Usefulness:  The blog provides a decent amount of hyperlinks leading to lots of information that is in support of what the author is talking about.  With hyperlinks this information is well supported; without hyperlinks this information is worthless.  Since this is a citizen’s account of what is going on, the information is supposed to be more opinionated and can be used to take a temperature of how people are reacting to things going on in the education proceedings by the government.  The author is given credibility by providing sources for the information and conclusions drawn.

 

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