Perdido 03

Perdido 03

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Arne's Ides of March

Ed Week reports that Arne Duncan is warning that if Congress does not past the Obama's administration's blueprint for No Child Left Behind re-authorization soon, 82% of American public schools will be labeled "failing."

Of course, under the Obama blueprint for No Child Left Behind - the one that brings standardized tests to every subject in every grade several times a year and ties teacher evaluations and pay to those tests - 82% of teachers in America will be labeled "failing."

That, as I like to say to students during the endless Regents exam prep drills we do these days in order to keep from being labeled "failing," is an example of "irony."

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