Adding a few dollars and tweaking a reauthorized No Child Left Behind is not real change: ending No Child Child Left Behind as we know is real change, and replacing it with a real true commitment to the children of this country. In this competitive world we live in, we cannot afford to be a nation of great standardized test takers--we must be a nation of creative and innovative thinkers—and that is what our education should be.
This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasizing testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build. JH August, 2005
Saturday, February 03, 2007
VILSACK FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!
Finally, a presidential candidate makes a statement on NCLB that is not channeling Margaret Spellings. From the DNC Winter Meeting earlier today :
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