Sounds Like a Mandate

Survey says: Two-thirds of Americans want NCLB amended or abolished. Except if they consider themselves very familiar with the law.
Then the number goes up to three-quarters.
With those results, NCLB should make it into next week’s presidential debates. Don’tcha think?
More on the Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University poll here.
Plus, Gerald Bracey parses the [...]

But How Do You Really Feel About It?

Alfie Kohn goes medieval on NCLB, as an “opposing view” to USA Today’s prescription for fixing the law.
Says Alfie,
No Child Left Behind is an appalling and unredeemable experiment that has done incalculable damage to our schools — particularly those serving poor, minority and limited-English-proficiency students.