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NCLB and the ways of leaving a sinking ship
- 06-27-2011
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Blog by William J. Mathis/National Education Policy Center
When the captain says she’s going down, it should not be surprising to see the ship’s officers checking the davits and taking the lifeboat covers off. So here we are, watching the crew react now that Captain Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, has said what the rest of the education world has known for a long time: NCLB is fatally holed and her decks are awash. The NCLB crew is essentially made up of 50 states. And as part of the abandon ship action, we’re seeing the Council of Chief State School Officers trying to get everyone to line up in an orderly way and evacuate according to their plan (after all, the chiefs have a big stake in related initiatives: the Common Core and national testing). The chiefs’ plan has a number of features amazingly similar to what Duncan has, up to now, not got through Congress. His recent hint at granting state waivers for states adopting his favored notions as a way of circumventing NCLB law has drawn criticism across the board. (more...)
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