Re: the education trust's disinformation campaign

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From: GERALD BRACEY <gbracey1@verizon.net>

To: arn-l@interversity.org
Sent: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:23 am
Subject: Re: [arn-l] the education trust's disinformation campaign


Art,

You can listen to the show at www.wbur.org.  Do it.

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I tried, but 20 minutes of nothing was all I could take.  You have too 
much time on your hands.  American public education works much better 
for some children than for others.  Getting it to work better for all 
children is a great reason to have NCLB, or something similar, with or 
without considering how well American kids are stacking up in 
international comparisons.  Devoting yourself to nailing careless talk 
by the Secretary about "grade levels," or correcting misstatements 
about international comparisons, is setting your sights too low.  
Arguments that NCLB is an attack on teachers, or a stalking horse for 
vouchers, or the first step in privatizing the public schools, or that 
it's DIBELizing education are so far out that they play only in 
propaganda outlets like this one.  It's over for all that stuff.  Get 
down to the real work of how to make the schools better for all kids.  
The sad fact is that resistance to doing so comes from inside public 
education and that is another great reason to have NCLB.

Art
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