My friend Diane Ravitch, offers some advice for Arne Duncan in last week’s Washington Post.
No beating about the bush, Diane offers some straight up advice on what works and what doesn’t, particularly in regards to NCLB and the USDOE.
A refreshing opinion. Here’s a little teaser: “You have a chance to make a historic difference by abolishing the No
Child Left Behind legislation. Signed into law in 2002, this law has
turned our schools into testing factories, narrowed the curriculum to
the detriment of everything other than reading and math, and prompted
states to claim phony test score gains.”