| READ THIS ONE says Diane Ravitch: STEVE NELSON WRITES: " Every bit of education reform is an excuse to continue the unconscionable neglect of our children. The 'reform' debate is "a national delusion."I wonder if we have simply lost our minds. In the cacophony of reform chatter -- online programs, charter schools, vouchers, testing, more testing, accountability, Common Core, value-added assessments, blaming teachers, blaming tenure, blaming unions, blaming parents -- one can barely hear the children crying out: "Pay attention to us!"None of these things will have the slightest effect on the so-called achievement gap or the supposed decline in America's international education rankings. Every bit of education reform -- every think tank remedy proposed by wet-behind-the-ears MBAs, every piece of legislation, every one of these things -- is an excuse to continue neglect our children." |
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