"The law No Child Left Behind as it currently stands is four years overdue for being rewritten," he said. "It is far too punitive, it is far too prescriptive, led to a dumbing-down of standards, led to a narrowing of the curriculum. At a time when we have to get better, faster education than we ever have, we can't afford to have the law of the land be one that has so many perverse incentives or disincentives for the kind of progress we want to see." Better late than never, imho. |
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