Local school news is skimpy today, so take the chance to read part two of this incredible series by Kelly Bennett and Dagny Salas on how -- and why -- the social safety net in San Diego County is failing. Kids fall through that gap too. I'm also loading up your newsblitz with interesting tales from California and afar:
- The Associated Press sums up what to expect when Obama rewrites No Child Left Behind. The San Bernardino Sun reports on a new study that finds, yet again, thatteachers dislike the existing law. And a blogger writes that Obama is walking "a rhetorical tightrope."
- Also on No Child Left Behind: A psychology professor argues in The New York Times that what schools need is to focus on fewer, deeper goals instead of "the laundry list of goals currently harnessing our teachers and students." And blogger Alexander Russo picks out a few telling details from all the reporting on NCLB and cautions that the new NCLB is just a proposal at this point.
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