No Child Left . . . . 0
Jim Arnold, a former Superintendent of Schools in Georgia, believes that teachers, and through them education, are being screwed.
A nugget:
Enrollments in education programs are dropping nationwide, due in large part to the attacks on the profession through opposition to due process, denigration of the profession, low pay and increasing expectations. Doing more with less has ceased to become a temporary circumstance and now is a way of life for teachers.
It would seem that 12 years of a failed test-and-punish system would be enough for anyone to recognize it simply doesn’t work.
President George the Worst’s “No Child Left Behind” has been just as successful as his stewardship of the economy, but those who have been enriched by it–testing companies, flocks of superfluous administrators, E-school theorists who have never led a primary or secondary school class, computer sales persons–continue to tinker with it rather than admit that it and their theories and their iPads and e-learning have not only failed to improve learning, but have done damage.
Meanwhile, for-profit charter schools circle like carrion crows to pluck clean the bones of the public school system so as to pay for their CEOs’ country-club memberships and private jets.
