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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Kozol to Kennedy
When Jonathan Kozol met with Sen Kennedy to discuss NCLB, Kozol gave Kennedy a letter detailing his concerns and issues with NCLB. Kozol then wrote up notes from his meeting, which were circulated a while ago. The Education Action website now has a link to the letter Kozol gave to Kennedy. What you do is use the link below to go to the meeting notes, then within those notes you will see in blue the phrase "the letter I handed him" - click on that to get to letter to Kennedy. http://ed-action.org/news.php?section=letters Note that a few of us were concerned about Kozol's formulation in his letter of multiple measures in a way that seemed to be tests plus other non-academic things; I encouraged him to refer to "multiple sources of evidence of student learning" that would include varied classroom and local assessments. Jonathan has assured me that he had spoking about multiple sources of evidence of learning with Kennedy at the meeting, but in his haste did not include that in his writeup. He will also further address concerns about the inappropriate uses of tests on ELL students. He is meeting with Kennedy again in the near future. Monty Monty Neill, Ed.D. Executive Director FairTest 342 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02139 617-864-4810 x 101; fax 617-497-2224 monty@fairtest.org http://www.fairtest.org Donate: https://secure.entango.com/servlet/donate/MnrXjT8MQqk
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