Re: [arn2-strategy] Sen. Clinton Questions NCLB Testing Emphasis

["Monty Neill" <monty@fairtest.org>]

As Stan Karp points out in the current Rethinking Schools, Hillary Clinton has also said she would vote for renewing NLCB. The question is, how to hold her to making the kinds of changes that would make her talk here (and similar ones in OH and NH) walk - to say she will not vote for reauth unless and until the federal law has been thoroughly overhauled. Obama, Stan, points out, has not been particularly better, and he too is on the Senate HELP committee, as is Sen Dodd, also running for president. Other candidates, according to the most recent I have heard, also lack specifics on their websites. 

Stan's article is at http://www.rethinkingschools.org/. 

Monty 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob Schaeffer 
  To: ARN Main List ; arn2-strategy 
  Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:42 AM
  Subject: [arn2-strategy] Sen. Clinton Questions NCLB Testing Emphasis


  CLINTON QUESTIONS EMPHASIS ON TESTING 
  Associated Press -- June 9, 2007
  by Henry C. Jackson

  CLINTON QUESTIONS EMPHASIS ON TESTING

  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton criticized the No 
  Child Left Behind education program Saturday, saying its emphasis on 
  testing puts American students in danger of losing their creative edge.

  "I think that we are in danger of narrowing the curriculum and leaving 
  children behind," Clinton said Saturday. "That's the very opposite of 
  what they said would happen."

  Clinton voted for No Child Left Behind, President Bush's signature 
  education policy, in 2001, but has since been a sharp critic. She said 
  the program's emphasis on testing is diluting resources from other 
  valuable areas of education.

  That will be a problem for the country going forward, she said.

  "Part of the reason America was always in the forefront of the World 
  Economy is that we're the innovators ... it's because we have creative 
  learners, we have people who learned to get around obstacles, they 
  didn't go in a straight line."

  Clinton spoke at a campaign event in Indianola, where she helped raise 
  money for state lawmaker Sen. Staci Appel. At the end of the event 
  Appel, who is serving her first term in the Legislature, said she was 
  endorsing Clinton's presidential bid.

  Clinton gave a version of her stump speech before taking a handful of 
  questions from a crowd of about 300 people.

  One woman, a college student studying music, asked Clinton what she 
  would do to ensure there was room for music education in public schools. 
  Clinton said she was a big supporter of music and other creative venues 
  in school.

  "Anyone who's ever heard me sing, knows, I can't sing," she said. "It's 
  a shame. I always sound great to my ears. ... But I love music, and I 
  cherish music, and I think back to my own years at school when the music 
  teachers would come into our classroom."

  Clinton said music and art can help unlock hidden potential in some 
  students.

  "Music and art, and exposure to different set of cultural experiences 
  can ignite such a creative passion and imagination in some people," she 
  said. "I worry that No Child Left Behind with its emphasis on tests ... 
  is going to weed so many kids out."



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