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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: David Marshak on NCLB-- Seattle Times
I'm disappointed he hasn't just come out and say anything nasty about WASL state-based reform either. The "federal ed reform sucks, unlike our wonder state based standards" line has just got to go. > In a message dated 2/8/2004 6:06:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, Jedoyon@aol.com > writes: > http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2001853018_marshak08.html > > Sunday, February 08, 2004 > Guest columnist > No Child Left Behind: Test-obsessed education won't move us ahead > By David Marshak > Special to The Times > But far from being an implement of reform, the intense focus on standardized > testing, on which No Child Left Behind relies, tethers schools to the > industrial model of education devised during the first two decades of the > 20th > century. > __________________________________ > > Even if it were true that NCLB embraces too much testing or the wrong kind of > testing, it does not at all follow that NCLB ties schools to any particular > model of education. NCLB does, in fact, leave organizational, curricular, and > instructional decisions completely up to states, districts, and schools. > > Art
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