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Why I am marching on July 30
- 06-21-2011
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Blog by Diane Ravitch/Education Week
Dear Deborah, I will be marching with the Save Our Schools coalition of teachers and parents on July 30 in Washington, D.C. I know you will be, too. I hope we are joined by many thousands of concerned citizens who want to save our schools from the bad ideas and bad policies now harming them. I am marching to protest the status quo of high-stakes testing, attacks on the education profession, and creeping privatization. I want to protest the federal government's punitive ideas about school reform, specifically, No Child Left Behind and the Race to the Top. Neither of these programs has any validation in research or practice or evidence. The nation's teachers and parents know that NCLB has been a policy disaster. Race to the Top incorporates the same failed ideas. Why doesn't Congress know? I want to protest the wave of school closings caused by these cruel federal policies. (more...)
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