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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: 20 Reasons to Eliminate NCLB
In a message dated 4/5/2006 6:43:52 AM Pacific Standard Time, jhorn@monmouth.edu writes: 20 Reasons to Eliminate NCLB... ___________________________________________________ With NCLB, states have, for the first time in American history, a binding obligation to improve their public schools to help all children learn to high levels. That is what NCLB is at its core: a requirement for states to improve their schools until they get it right. NCLB is clearly an imperfect vehicle. However, opposition to NCLB rooted in fantasies of federal control of education, in bizarre theories of plots to privatize education, in magical thinking about the deleterious effects of tests, and in phony objections from a system that puts its own interests ahead of the interests of parents and children will convince no one except the terminally naive or the hopelessly deluded. That so many educators have taken the low road is a shameful abdication of responsibility to children and a disservice to the nation. Art
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