Re: Connecticut Says NCLB Underfunds Even Minimal Test Quality

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From: Peter Campbell <campbellp@mail.montclair.edu>
To: arn2-strategy <arn2-strategy@yahoogroups.com>; ARN Main List 
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Sent: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:23:59 -0600
Subject: Re: [arn-l] Connecticut Says NCLB Underfunds Even Minimal Test 
Quality

...
 I'm quite confident that making the tests cheaper and dumber will 
close the educational achievement gap in Connecticut. No doubt about 
it.
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We all know that the real reason that poor and minority children lag 
behind other children in Connecticut is that NCLB forces the state to 
use poor quality tests and that Connecticut is against NCLB because it 
is just falling all over itself on behalf of poor and minority 
children.  Sure.

NAACP petitioned against the state:

"While Connecticut claims to support the laudable goals of NCLB, it 
seeks in the present suit to undermine those goals by vitiating the 
rights provided to students and parents by the statute.  Respectfully, 
Connecticut's action in bringing this lawsuit is analogous to a 
polluter claiming to support the Clean Water Act while petitioning to 
dump hazardous waste in the Connecticut River."

How silly of the NAACP not to realize what is so clear to ARN:  That 
NCLB is just a tool to further the nefarious agenda of the Business 
Roundtable by privatizing public education.  And you could see how 
NAACP could be easily fooled.  After all, what experience does the 
NAACP have in civil rights?

Art