Re: No Mas

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/5/2006 7:12:11 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
jhorn@monmouth.edu writes:

...This  Fall when we view that disturbing film history, my students will be 
able to  fast forward a hundred years to see that those who do not recall the 
past are,  indeed, doomed to repeat it. Or perhaps it is those who just don't 
give a damn  about the past, or see the past, perhaps, as providing an 
efficient model for  making sure today's poor and immigrant populations are left 
behind in poverty  for another hundred years.

In today's New York Times, we find this  story about the cowardly and 
unquestioning decision by state education  officials of New York to force 90,000 
English language learners in grades 3-8  to use the regular English language arts 
exam....
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Drawing a straight line from the abuses of IQ testing in the 20s to the use  
of reading and math tests in today's public schools, as if there has been no  
history in between and as if understanding and uses of the results have  not 
changed, is bizarre, reckless, and  irresponsible.  You don't like NCLB, or 
conservatives, or business  people, or the Bush administration, more power to 
you.  But quit  trying to indoctrinate students with your twisted interpretations 
and  conspiracy theories.  Do you really believe that the NAACP would be  
petitioning a federal court to enforce the "letter and spirit" of NCLB if tests  
were being used with the same discriminatory purposes as they were in the  
20s?  How much of a charlatan can you be?
 
Art