There He Goes Again...
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...defending the status quo.
If I was running the world, I would severely reduce the accountability stakes for tests. I would certainly eliminate things like No Child Left Behind. I would probably take away the current waiver. Even if it looks better, sometimes it's still really the same wolf in different clothing.
I would do away with standards, to be honest. Even though on paper they sound kind of cool, they assume all kids are the same and they all make progress the same way and move in lockstep. And that's just not accurate. Standards distort individual differences among kids. And that's bad.
Pandemic
The virus is basically everywhere now.
The teachers are demanding that 6% of Gross Domestic Product be spent on education to improve infrastructure for schools and teaching materials. Public schools in Peru are impoverished while there is a burgeoning private sector as the government continues with neo-liberal reforms such as