An Open Letter to the Chiefs for Change
by Frederick M. Hess • Feb 27, 2012 at 10:03 am
Cross-posted from Education Week
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ShareHi All,
You know I dig you, and that I've long regarded many of you as friends, mentors, kindred spirits, and inspirations. But, right now, I'm feeling compelled to add a new tag: enablers.
We just recently watched the end of round one of the ludicrous "waiver" spectacle. The Obama administration turned the modest authority to waive provisions of NCLB into a license to require that states adopt a raft of preferred measures, or else label most of their schools as failing.
Of course, the administration had presented it very differently. Last fall, the Secretary of Education made grand
