Education Week: Duncan Sounds Starting Gun on ESEA Renewal:
"But the secretary said some of the law’s critics are correct in their assertion that NCLB “unfairly labeled many schools as failures even when they are making progress—it places too much emphasis on raw test scores rather than student growth.”
Secretary Duncan also invoked Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” which made the case for nonviolent civil disobedience to achieve overdue racial equality, at a time when others counseled patience."
"But the secretary said some of the law’s critics are correct in their assertion that NCLB “unfairly labeled many schools as failures even when they are making progress—it places too much emphasis on raw test scores rather than student growth.”
Secretary Duncan also invoked Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” which made the case for nonviolent civil disobedience to achieve overdue racial equality, at a time when others counseled patience."