Opting-Out of No Child Left Behind
Michele Gray has a fascinating post up in what will be an ongoing series on her and other parents’ decision to opt their children out of their state’s No Child Left Behind tests. Confronted with one son who wanted to make a film about how tests were ruining his high school, and another son whose stress over the high-stakes tests led him to scratch his legs during his sleep, Michele decided to take the problem seriously. Her younger son Ted pointed her to Timothy Slekar, who wrote about the Bartleby Project – a nationwide
