Thursday, August 11, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: More on Duncan's Law

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: More on Duncan's Law

More on Duncan's Law

"But to maintain a law [NCLB] that is so fundamentally broken that teachers and principals and students reject and are rebelling against because it doesn't make sense, to just sit here passively in Washington and do nothing, to me, would be the height of arrogance or the height of tone-deafness." -- Interview with John Hockenberry


Arne's right of course. The problem is, he wants to replace the "fundamentally broken" NCLB with something even worse -- a Race To The Topthat maintains the worse features of No Child's reliance on standardized testing, basing teacher