Your Federal Government is Ruining Worcester’s Schools
Usually when people criticize the Feds, it’s “the federal government” they criticize — those folks in Washington, over whom you have no control — as if you can’t influence public affairs. You can. So read; then act.
The No Child Left Behind Act was a bipartisan effort — Sen. Kennedy was among its many sponsors — that has had profound effects on the schools in my hometown of Worcester, MA. By one measure, standardized test scores, the city schools are improving. But if you look closely at what teachers, administrators and students are actually DOING, I think you’ll find that in many ways the schools are worse.
For example, administrators, to justify the actions of their teachers with respect to state standards (and driven by the need to demonstrate their efforts in the case of low test scores) have demanded that teachers reference the state standards on all […]
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