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Stop the education reform pendulum
- 06-07-2010
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Column by Walt Gardner/Education Week
It's understandable why teachers feel they need a summer vacation so desperately this year. The spring semester has been marked by an avalanche of educational legislation across the nation that has left them reeling. What is disturbing is not the sheer number of changes as much as their lack of cohesiveness. In an excellent analysis in The Nation, Pedro Noguera warns that policy makers have not thought out clearly what must be done to improve educational quality ("A New Vision of School Reform"). As a result, the Race to the Top and other initiatives constitute fragmented approaches. But the truth is that for decades public education in this country has undergone abrupt swings from one extreme to the other for the same reason. (more...)
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