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
Great reasons for scrapping NCLB (and by scrapping I'm hoping he means just getting rid of the parts we don't like, not the whole IDEA). My ears pricked up again at the end- a federal program for science and math using art. Groan- will it be another federal program created and run by non-teachers? That kind of thing rarely helps, no matter how well-intentioned.
Great reasons for scrapping NCLB (and by scrapping I'm hoping he means just getting rid of the parts we don't like, not the whole IDEA). My ears pricked up again at the end- a federal program for science and math using art. Groan- will it be another federal program created and run by non-teachers? That kind of thing rarely helps, no matter how well-intentioned.
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