You're a decade late in your assessment of No Child Left Behind. Any decent teacher could have told you it wouldn't work. Then again, you never bothered to ask us. While I place most of the blame on the politicians, your media outlet has also been culpable in failing to report accurately on the highly publicized "miracles" that have occurred as a result of NCLB.
With regards to public education, your reporting has been irresponsible, flighty, vapid and prone toward ignoring the hard data so that you could follow the latest corporate reform. I read your glowing articles on Michelle Rhee (including the front cover image of Rhee holding the cliche reform broom) and your misguided editorials about merit pay, tougher standards, unions and failing schools.
I suspect it will take you another decade to see that the corporate reform that columnists such as Joe Klein have been pushing (and the Race to the Top initiative in particular) are just as flawed as the No Child Left Behind law.
Sincerely,
John Spencer
Well said, we can only hope it won't take so long to expose the flaws of CCSS ... Corporate Concoction Sedating Students
I presume you sent this to Time? Awesome.
Not sure how I missed this post, but life has been crazy of late. I really hope you sent this in, and I hope they have the smarts to run it, but why do I have my doubts that they will?.