Krash Course #5: Reform We Need
Each time I publish or post a critique of the education reform insanity coming from the Corporate Reformers, I receive badgering responses asking what I would do instead. So here is a list of Reform We Need:
• Secretary of Education Arne Duncan needs to resign, and apologize for his inexpert leadership and harm done to public education.
• Federal and state policies must address the lives of children in the U.S. A first best step would be universal health coverage for everyone 18 and under as well as all people enrolled in school until the age of 30. A next set of policies must address stable and well paying work for poor and working class families. Food security among children as well as in the homes of people in poverty and working-class families must be addressed also.
• All aspects of the accountability era, including standards-based testing, must be dismantled. Testing used to
• Secretary of Education Arne Duncan needs to resign, and apologize for his inexpert leadership and harm done to public education.
• Federal and state policies must address the lives of children in the U.S. A first best step would be universal health coverage for everyone 18 and under as well as all people enrolled in school until the age of 30. A next set of policies must address stable and well paying work for poor and working class families. Food security among children as well as in the homes of people in poverty and working-class families must be addressed also.
• All aspects of the accountability era, including standards-based testing, must be dismantled. Testing used to
