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| | George W. Bush is writing a sequel to his big education act. The No Child Left Behind law was signed almost a decade ago, with overwhelming approval from Congress (384 to 45 in the House and 91 to 8 in the Senate).
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| | The New York Times Sunday Magazine published an article titled "America's Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?" It was written by staff member Jia Lynn Yang. I anticipated that the article would be another lament about test scores, of which there have been many recently. But it wasn't! Instead, Yang described the...
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| | How standardized testing, gentrification, school choice, and economic downturn have widened inequality to create an existential threat to democracy.
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| My last post listed reasons why many children don't learn to read. Poverty was behind many of the items. Poor students attend poor schools where they miss out on the arts, a whole curriculum, even qualified, well prepared teachers. Students might end up in "no excuses" charter schools with only digital learning. But, next to