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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: FW: Open Letter
Everything Marion says about NCLB is absolute, total, and complete nonsense. Only the hoplelessly naive or the terminally deluded could find "catastrophic consequences" in increasing funding for schools and requiring states to improve them. Art In a message dated 11/18/2006 1:32:42 PM Pacific Standard Time, pwmjoy@earthlink.net writes: > [Original Message] > From: Marion Brady <mbrady22@CFL.RR.COM> > To: <CESNEWS@listserv.brown.edu> > Date: 11/18/2006 12:43:34 PM > Subject: Open Letter > > An Open Letter to Margaret Spellings and Congress > > "Human history," said H. G. Wells, is "a race between education and > catastrophe." If we stay the course with No Child Left Behind, catastrophe > is a sure bet.
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