Thursday, January 12, 2012

Schools Matter: Nine Years Before Ten Years After

Schools Matter: Nine Years Before Ten Years After:

Nine Years Before Ten Years After

I have been deliberately ignoring the 10th painful anniversary of NCLB-S. I appreciate the grisly work of Lisa Guisbond and Monty Neill in unearthing all those dead bodies and in reminding us that those who don't recall the past. . . .

I know. I was looking for something else and came across a Bracey's (may he rest in peace) prophetic pieceposted on the Web on January 3, 2003. For those who never read Bracey while he was alive, try it on. It still fits.


THE NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT, A PLAN FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF PUBLIC EDUCATION: JUST SAY NO

Gerald W. Bracey

Gerald W. Bracey is an Associate of the High/Scope Educational