Posts Tagged ‘No Child Left Behind Act’
Authors Diane Ravitch and Linda Dobson Discuss Education
By Linda Dobson Diane Ravitch's latest in a string of highly-regarded books about education, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (Basic Books, 2010), quickly hit the New York Times best-seller list and has taken the nation by storm. In part, it's because Ms. Ravitch, once a [...]
Missouri School Offers Glimpse at Emerging Damage of No Child Left Behind Debacle
"The story of Hanna Woods is being repeated nationwide this fall as thousands of schools fail to meet the standards of the federal No Child Left Behind act." So begins a Friday, Dec. 4 St. Louis Post-Dispatch article by Valerie Schremp Hahn titled "Schools Falling Farther Behind." In order to grasp what's happening at the little elementary [...]
