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When someone who once was so enthusiastic about No Child Left Behind that she opined we should be thanking George W Bush and Congress for passing it writes a book five years later detailing its faults, it’s safe to say you’ve got a deeply unpopular program on your hands.
That’s exactly what Diane Ravitch has done. A research professor of education at New York University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, she’s written a book called “The Death and Life of the Great American School System” in which she details what she sees as the law’s failings.
Much of what she says echoes what critics have been saying for years — Continue reading »
With President Obama’s big “controversial” speech on education this week (because “stay in school, work hard, and wash your hands are really hot-button issues) and the first day of school coming this week for most kids, the state of America’s schools is on a lot of people’s minds.
According to a report from Public Agenda, it turns out that what education reformers and bureaucrats think the big issues facing schools are not, in fact, what parents and educator themselves think of as the issues. Highlight of the report include:
Joslyn Gray 
Amber Doty 
Julianna Miner 
Monica Bielanko 
Sierra Black 
Meredith Carroll 
Carolyn Castiglia 
Sunny Chanel 
Madeline Holler 
Wendy Michaels 
Rebecca Odes 
Danielle Smith 
Danielle Sullivan 
Katherine Stone 
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