Re: nat council of churches launches campaign on NCLB

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In a message dated 9/14/2006 2:33:27 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
monty@fairtest.org writes:

> Jan  Resseger
> Minister for Public Education and Witness
> United  Church of Christ Justice and Witness Ministries

..."People of faith  can articulate a vision for public morality.  We are 
called to  insist that  NCLB begin to address poverty, racism and  segregation; 
to demand that NCLB be changed to build capacity and support  educators; to 
insist that the law be  more oriented to student growth and  less dependent on 
standardized tests; to call for full funding; to  challenge NCLB's sanctions 
that undermine educational programming in the  very schools serving our nation's 
poorest students; and to decry the  law's mechanisms that try to motivate 
through fear."...
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There are better means to address poverty, racism, and segregation  than 
through federal education legislation.  And if NCLB were itself  having the 
deleterious effects in the nation's poorest schools that the National  Council 
charges, the NAACP would not be arguing in federal court that  states should 
enforce NCLB in "letter and spirit."  FairTest has sold  these well-meaning groups a 
load of baloney and when they realize the truth,  they will resent it greatly.
 
Art