Testing day: ‘More like lockdown than an elementary school’ - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Testing day: ‘More like lockdown than an elementary school’ - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

Testing day: ‘More like lockdown than an elementary school’

by Valerie Strauss

This was written by Larry Lee of Montgomery, Alabama, former executive director of the Covington County Economic Development Commission and the West Central Partnership of Alabama. Lee, who writes often about education, sent the following email to friends and other people whom he thought would be interested. He gave me permission to publish it.
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Ravitch: I don’t understand Michelle Rhee

by Valerie Strauss

This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with Deborah Meier on the Education Week website. The item was first published on March 6. In their blog,Ravitch and Meier exchange letters about what matters most in education. Ravitch, a research professor at New York University, is author of “The Death and Life of the Great American School System,” a critique of the flaws in the modern school reform movement that she just updated.
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