Accentuate the Positive

Should NCLB offer more carrot, less stick? Two consultants ponder whether an emphasis on schools that succeed, instead of those that struggle, is the way to go.

On Headway Strategies‘ company blog, they propose, “a school couldn’t be labeled Needs Improvement unless the state also found some things that they were doing right and recognized those things.”

Julia Steiny in the Providence Journal concludes, “The nation’s leaders badly need to get over thinking they can punish schools into excellence. It can’t be done.”

Hmm…is that kind of 180 possible? Would it work better? What would an NCLB that said it wasn’t about punishment look like? Without a lot of other changes, probably this.

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