Thompson: Building On Disaggregation
NCLB supporters have been celebrating the law's tenth anniversary by savaging the educators who had the temerity to challenge the self-evident righteousness of data-driven accountability. Opponents have been citing NCLB's failure to improve student performance, while recounting the damage it did to the children it was supposed to help. Jack Jennings's take on NCLB in Education Week best exemplifies the retrospectives by pragmatists, who cannot afford to say aloud that NCLB has been a disaster. After all, he has to work with "reformers" who saw the law as a crusade and who demanded a
Video: What The Nation's "Best" Teachers Have To Say
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As part of my continuing search for authentic teacher voices from across a wide sprectrum, here's video and bloggery from Dan Brown about the meeting between Duncan and the NBCT all-stars that you might have missed from before the break (Sitting Next to Arne Duncan). Not newsy, and NBCT teachers are a highly self-selected bunch, but a relatively natural setting by Washington standards.