My article "Beyond NCLB" discusses in general form what an overhauled Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA - currently named NCLB) should include. To reach the conclusions, I briefly consider some of the damage caused by NCLB and discuss the concept of the "educational debt" developed by Gloria Ladson-Billings. This Rethinking Schools article is now on the web here.
The issue contains many other valuable articles including one on reading first by Stephen Krashen (available on the web). "The Power of Words: top down mandates masquerade as social justice reforms" by Linda Christensen, "The Scripted Prescription" on the destructive effects of testing on young children, and others are only available in the printed issue.
You can obtain a pdf of this issue for $4.95 - or subscribe and get the pdf of this issue as an extra - go here. But please subscribe - this is one of 'our' papers and we need to support these endeavors (along with Substance and of course FairTest Examiner).
Monty
Thursday, April 10, 2008
This Month in Rethinking Schools
From Monty Neill at FairTest:
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I would subscribe to Rethinking Schools IF they hadn't ridiculed us at the beginning....THey called us Naive.
ReplyDeleteWTF?
They are supposed to be radical. Instead, they gave columns to the NEA and less than a paragraph to us.
Again, WTF?