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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: Fw: hickok
In a message dated 6/1/2006 5:45:00 PM Pacific Standard Time, campbellp@mail.montclair.edu writes: ...So we need evidence of public school teacher effectiveness under the mindless draconian machinations of NCLB and high-stakes standardized tests by fetishizing AYP, but all we need to know about SES providers is whether districts think they are effective or not. How comforting.... _____________________________________________________ States are not meeting their responsibilities under NCLB. Only the hopelessly naive or the terminally deluded could possibly attribute states' failure to act in the best interests of their parents and kids to "mindless draconian machinations of NCLB" and "fetishizing AYP" (whatever those incantations mean). NAACP has it exactly right in telling Connecticut to shape up and do the right thing. You and ARN have it exactly wrong. Art
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