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OK, so NCLB wasn't a perfect-from-the-start solution. Few initiatives of that scale ever are. Time for a pivot, not for going back to the bad old days.

• cantastoria 15y ago
  But a return to the "bad old days" is exactly what the education establishment wants. I think the reporter here buried the lede. This was the most interesting paragraph for me: "People were stunned because they were always led to believe that things were going fine in this particular school. And the fact of the matter was, for huge numbers of students that was not the case," Miller said. "That led to a lot of anger, disappointment. That led to embarrassment. In many instances, the schools were being held out as exceeding in their mission, when it fact they were failing many, many of the children in those schools." Test scores are hard to argue with so they repeat this "teaching to the test is bad" mantra endlessly. Of course, when they start talking about other countries school systems as being better what's the first metric they cite? Test scores. I have yet to here an alternative way of measuring performance that didn't amount to "trust us".