Re: Fw: Bush in denial about charter schools

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/5/2006 12:45:23 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
monty@fairtest.org writes:

...Meanwhile, despite years of high-stakes tests, the  NAEP long-term trend 
results show flat scores for decades for all demographic  groups at age 17. I'd 
conclude high-stakes testing is a failed policy - but  Bush knows what he 
knows even when it is not true. Sadly, he is joined by too  many Democrats as 
well as other Republicans. 
 



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Arguing which came first the chicken of NCLB or the egg of rising NAEP  
scores is an exercise in silliness. 
 
NCLB requires states to improve their schools until all their children  
achieve at high levels of proficiency.  States are not falling all over  themselves 
to intervene in their schools, for many reasons.  They don't  know what to 
do, they don't want to spend the money, and they don't want to  rock the boats 
of special interests that want to keep things the way they are or  to change 
things to suit themselves.  Tests have very little to do  with this.  You guys 
are just missing the boat by claiming over and over  that the central dynamic 
is "high stakes testing."
 
Art