Re: What's next????

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Poll results:  http://www.hoover.org/publications/ednext/8769517.html

Who knows what it really means?  The level of misinformation, 
disinformation, and distortion around NCLB  is absolutely astonishing.  
People have gone absolutely wild about it - witness threats here to 
attack me with a mob because I support NCLB, and all kinds of profane 
talking.  It's very hard to know what the "public" really "knows" or 
"thinks" about NCLB because what they think about it is wrapped up with 
what they know and think about public education in their state, 
district, and local schools.  Plus when you have very complex issues, 
people's responses depend somewhat on how questions are asked.  For 
sure, though, NCLB is not a product of corporate thought, it is not a 
tool to privatize education, it does not impose a "one size fits all" 
regime, it does not assume that standards and tests alone will improve 
education, and it does require states to improve their schools for all 
children.  It's clunky, but it's a great advance in the civil rights of 
parents and children.

Art

-----Original Message-----
From: Diane Aoki <dkeikoa@hawaii.rr.com>
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Sent: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:41 pm
Subject: Re: [arn-l] What's next????


What is this?



> A majority of Americans want the law to be renewed as
> it is or with minor changes, according to a poll out
> Monday by Harvard University's Kennedy School of
> Government and Education Next, a publication of the
> Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
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