Re: Educators Roundtable: Ending NCLB

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

If this doesn't define loony paranoia, I don't know what does. Somehow  this 
fantastic conspiracy has eluded the nation's media, the Democrats, and  
critics of the Bush administration.  ESEA, of which NCLB is the latest  incarnation, 
has been in effect since 1965.  NCLB passed Congress with  overwhelming 
support from both Houses.  George Miller and Ted Kennedy were  strong supporters.  
The NAACP argued recently in federal court in the  Connecticut case that 
states should enforce the letter and spirit of NCLB.   Do you really believe that 
George Miller, Ted Kennedy, and the NAACP are  part of this conspiracy or that 
they are so easily fooled?  
 
Art
 
In a message dated 11/20/2006 7:46:11 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
pfarr@cal.berkeley.edu writes:

Kathy  Emery is an Education Historian, and co-author, with Susan 
Ohanian, of Why  Is Corporate America Bashing Our Public 
Schools?  Their book is a  history of the long-term, nationally 
coordinated plan of the Business  Roundtable (BRT) to use high stakes 
accountability regimes to restore  public schools to their traditional 
function of social reproduction of the  class system, or 
"militarizing" low income schools, via hard core  behaviorism, so that 
working class kids are disciplined from an early age  into accepting 
their roles as low wage labor and military drones.   The BRT's 
successes in using corporate funding and influence networks to  
implement local and state level high stakes systems culminated in  
their master plan of enacting a national law,  NCLB.