The President's Education Plan

The digital stories were awesome Monday night. I think that Jill had a perfect recap in her blog. I was most impressed by the diversity and character of our cohort. And people continue to surprise me. There is so much that we have to learn about each other! That activity definitely made me feel closer to everyone as a whole. Much better than your run of the mill ice breaking activity.
On another subject- I know Chrisann had mentioned merit-based pay in a previous entry but wanted to poll our cohort as a whole on President Obama's education plan. What do you think of it? If you're not that familiar with it an overview is provided here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/education/
As many of you already know I'm a die hard democrat and, not suprisingly in support of the President's plan. I think it's time that No Child Left Behind is reformed as I am not a fan of teaching to tests. That doesn't mean that I think accountability should be thrown out the window and this is where I'm torn. How should teachers be evaluated? I don't know that I have the answer because there are so many possibilities, some which I am more fond of than others. I love the POTUS' zero to five plan because education begins way before kindergarten. Also, I think that his support for ELL's will hopefully get implemented and have a big impact in regions like ours.