Radical Scholarship: Greenville News 8 January 2012: Don't jump from NCLB frying pan to the fire

Radical Scholarship: Greenville News 8 January 2012: Don't jump from NCLB frying pan to the fire:

Greenville News 8 January 2012: Don't jump from NCLB frying pan to the fire

by P. L. Thomas

Don't jump from NCLB frying pan to the fire

[expanded and cited version at The Daily Kos: "Government "Options": A Contradiction in Terms*"]

[original submission]

The largest federal education initiative, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), has proven in a decade to be the worst federal education initiative as well. Under the Barack Obama administration we are experiencing Orwellian double-speak in more federal programs—Race to the Top (RttT) and opting out of NCLB—that claim to be addressing NCLB flaws but are in fact guaranteed to make bad even worse.

South Carolina created controversy during the RttT application process, and our state is poised for even more