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The “War Report” Radio Show: False Promise of NCLB for Public Education | Cloaking Inequity

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The “War Report” Radio Show: False Promise of NCLB for Public Education

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Leave No Child Behind is a moniker appropriated from the military’s “Leave No Man Behind.” Perhaps the moniker belies the mindset of the authors of high-stakes testing and accountability policies, because we are in the middle of a “war” for public education with the privateers— those seeking to profit from our education system. (See Billionaires co-opt minority groups into campaign for education reform)
This past weekend I joined Dr. James Avington Miller, Jr,James_Miller_new-sm a public education advocate, activist, professor, teacher and independent scholar, on his radio show the “The War Report.” His show is about the corporate war on public education and the rising public resistance movement in the war.
Click here to listen to our discussion on the War Report.
 Here is what we covered: