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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Schools Matter: National Council of Teachers of English continues to support LEARN (sic) Act

Schools Matter: National Council of Teachers of English continues to support LEARN (sic) Act


National Council of Teachers of English continues to support LEARN (sic) Act

The NCTE website contains an action alert urging us to tell our legislators to vote for the LEARN Act (HR 4027; S2740). http://www.ncte.org/action/alerts.
I think the LEARN Act is a disaster. It will work against everything NCTE has ever stood for. It extends the


ETS Report: Achievement Gap Static During Last 20 Years of Test and Punish

So Obama and the Oligarchs are launched on another generation of the same edu-diversions and privatization schemes that pretend to treat the symptom, while ignoring the problem of poverty, racism, and the corrosive effects of capitalism run amok.  Will it matter that the f-ing Educational Testing Service is now waving the red flag?  What will it take? 

From the ETS Press Release today (my bolds):