NCLB bill: The problem with ‘continuous improvement’
This was written by Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, a non-profit organization created in 1986 to broaden the discussion about economic policy to include the interests of low- and middle-income workers. This appeared on the institute’s website.
By Richard Rothstein
Read full article >>Parent trigger laws: Part of school reform’s ‘silly season’
By Mark Phillips
One of my earliest recollections as a high school teacher is of a meeting in which the chairman of my department angrily fired a pencil across the table at the leader of a parent group. The parent was demanding a voice in setting our department’s curriculum. While my department chair’s behavior was straight out of a black comedy movie, his voice was clear: “Curriculum should be left to the experts. A parental voice is out of the question.”
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