Re: oops

[aburke5054@aol.com]

 NCLB requires states to improve their schools unitl all their children learn to high standards of proficiency. I think testing and NCLB make important and positive contributions to American education. If this makes me a "reactionary," then so are others like the New York Times and the NAACP, which recently argued in federal court that states should enforce NCLB in letter and spirit. By pretending that the tests are the problem and in making everything into a "war," you guys only make yourselves more and more irrelevant. That's the source of your problems and that's why you have lost support.
 
 Art 
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 From: monty@fairtest.org
 To: arn-l@interversity.org
 Sent: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 9:28 AM
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  As always those who think they have won the "war" call on others to admit defeat - whether the "war" is DIBELS, No Child Left, high-stakes testing, or other areas in and out of education. Art is not alone in this, I see it commonly.    But if DIBELS and the rest of test-driven schooling fails to help children obtain a decent education, as the evidence shows is the case, then it is a reasonable moral obligation to continue the battle.    No, Art, we aren't giving up.    But then who else would give you free daily space and an audience (those who bother to read you) for your incessant reactionary prattling.   Monty Neill    ----- Original Message -----  From: aburke5054@aol.com  To: arn-l@interversity.org  Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 12:19 PM Subject: Re: [arn-l] oops 
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 I'm not sure where in the op ed you get the sense we are trying to re-start the reading wars. 
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 >From this: 
 
 "Whichever way you look at DIBELS, it's an invalid indicator of reading skills. And scripted programs cannot provide instruction that promotes deep, critical literacy skills. "
 
 
 Art
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