Re: Kozol to Kennedy

[aburke5054@aol.com]

The question isn't what was in the letter that Kozol gave to Senator 
Kennedy.  The question is what Senator Kennedy did with the letter 
after Kozol left.

Art

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From: Monty Neill <monty@fairtest.org>
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Subject: [arn-l] 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

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