Re: Fw: [eddra] C-Span Program (Fighting Back)

["Samuel Lubell" <samlubell@verizon.net>]

Jerry mentioned problems finding the full Comission on Title I report.  It
can be found through ERIC at


http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/16/20/9e.pdf
This is the 106 page version with the statements

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From: "GERALD BRACEY" <gbracey1@verizon.net>
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Subject: Re: [arn-l] Fw: [eddra] C-Span Program (Fighting Back)


>
> That is from the "Enforcement" section of "Making Schools Work for
> Children
> in Poverty, the report of the Commission on Title I, often called the
> Hornbeck Commission for Dave Hornbeck, the former Philly Supt who
> chaired
> it.
>
>
> December 1992.
>
>
> All you need to do to get to NCLB is to lay out a timetable for
> progress
> (AYP), specify precisely what constitutes a failing school, specify
> more
> concretely the sanctions and set up a calendar for them, too.
>
>
> While some of the members of the commission were the usual
> suspects--Kati
> Haycock, Marc Tucker, and Cynthia Brown, for instance, many were not:
> Henry
> Levin, Hayes Mizell, Joe Nathan, Bella Rosenberg, Ramsay Selden, Bob
> Slavin,
> Mike Smith, and Anne Wheelock (this is not an exhaustive list).
>
>
> You can get the 31-page document itself via Google, but I didn't see
> any
> listing for the document with commission commentary and supplementary
> statements of individual members such as George, Bella and Anne, all of
> whom
> obejected to varius components, especially the assessment system which
> they
> saw as unworkable.  The Commission argued for performance tests that
> would
> measure higher-order skills.  Ha.  George Miller has currently plumped
> for
> the same stuff.
>
>
> I don't recall how I got the full document, but I think it was through
> my
> JSTOR access via AERA.
>
>
> You definitely want the full document if you can get it.
>
>
> The document that contains the commission's proposals is ERIC ED 362
> 618.
>
>
> The document that contains the proposals and commentary (about 3 times
> as
> long) is ERIC ED 373 120.
>
>
>
> Jerry