K12> TESTS: WEAPONS OF MASS INSTRUCTION

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From: "Bonnie Bracey" ?BBracey@xxxxxxx?
To:  ?K12ADMIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx???
Sent: Fri, 9 May 2003 10:00:36 EDT
Subject: TESTS: WEAPONS OF MASS INSTRUCTION
 
TESTS: WEAPONS OF MASS INSTRUCTION
James Harvey thinks we've badly missed the boat on school reform,
misjudging everything from what's required to what it will cost. He views
the No Child Left Behind Act as unmistakably hostile to teachers and
school administrators. In his view, "Tests have become the nation's latest
weapons of mass instruction." He writes that federal officials are now in
a position to make decisions that would have been unimaginable even two
years ago. They've established the criteria for disciplining schools,
removing principals and teachers, and even defining appropriate curriculum
for American classrooms. What surprises Mr. Harvey is that this truly
radical reversal of respect for local school control has been put in place
with scarcely a peep of protest. Harvey offers four common sense ideas for
school reformers and points out that learning takes place in a lot of
places besides schools -- and that a genuine reform strategy would worry
about them all.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/134688604_harvey04.html


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