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Unfortunately, many of us had hoped when President Obama was elected that it would mean No Child Left Behind would literally be scraped. Its a terrible program, everybody today says its failed, but Race to the Top is built on the same premises as No Child Left Behind. And that is, that we must race to get higher test scores. The test scores- you can coach kids the way you coach parrots, you can coach seals. You can train people to get higher test scores. What we find in all these International tests is that there are certain Asian countries, that have a test-taking culture, and when their kids come here they say they come here for the freedom, they come here for the spirit. They come here for the opportunity to use their imagination, their creativity... And thats what the trump card of America is. Its not the ability to check off a box and say I got 1 out of 4 correctly. Its thinking out of the box, and so we are crushing that.. ~Diane Ravitch~ msnbc/melissa-harris-perry/watch/the-case-against-school-privatization-57195587667
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 16:15:35 +0000

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