Reasons #6 & #7 that I’m marching
MAY 7, 2011
I just shared a quick top 5 over at the Save Our Schools March Blog. But here are a couple more:
#6: Cutting Kids
The trend in education has been to build bigger accountability systems to monitor teachers and students through test scores while simultaneously cutting programs, services, and people. The result of this misappropriation of funding is that bureaucracies have more ways to complain about the problems they are NOT solving. It is a trap for educators and an unending bleeding of our children.
-Angela Engel, author, educator, mother, and all-around powerhouse
#7: Deflection, Duplicity, and Straight-up Hypocrisy
Between our frenemies in Washington, self-proclaimed student advocates who say
