Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Ed Reform “Miracles” – or Mirages? 10 Years of “No Child Left Behind” has led to cheating & lies | Seattle Education 2010

Ed Reform “Miracles” – or Mirages? 10 Years of “No Child Left Behind” has led to cheating & lies | Seattle Education 2010

Ed Reform “Miracles” – or Mirages? 10 Years of “No Child Left Behind” has led to cheating & lies

The Great Ed Reform Swindle

From the (since de-beatified) “Texas Miracle” of 2000 that inspired the creation of George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind,” to the latest revelations about Washington D.C.’s falsified student test scores under ed reform’s broom-wielding ‘superwoman’ Michelle Rhee, 10 years of the punitive ed reform agenda and its so-called “successes” have turned out to be a bust.

D.C. mirage under Michelle Rhee:

Resigned D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee. Alleged academic successes attributed to her ed reform policies are now being revealed as fraudulent.

When standardized test scores soared in D.C., were the gains real?

“(…) Michelle Rhee, then chancellor of D.C. schools, took a special interest in Noyes. She touted the school, which now serves preschoolers through