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Unorthodox education predictions for 2012 - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Unorthodox education predictions for 2012 - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

Unorthodox education predictions for 2012

It’s not especially hard to make conventional predictions for the education world in 2012:

*The U.S. Education Department will grant some states waivers from the most onerous requirements of No Child Left Behind.

*Congress will fail — again — to do a comprehensive rewrite of NCLB.

*Education Secretary Arne Duncan will keep pushing the Race to the Top initiative, so long as Congress provides the cash, ignoring the lack of evidence to support the reforms it requires.

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