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The only good policy on NCLB is to get rid of it; unfortunately, none are interested in doing so.
It's wrong to repurpose our schools into the sole purpose of training students to pass machine-gradable tests.
What they need is to LEARN. (See the Education entries in my 360 blog.)
As far as I know, no one is calling for the changes we really need: restructuring of schools so they engage in genuine education. NOT the ingesting of gazzillions of details and drill in meaningless micro-skills, but internalizing the power of basic concepts, and using knowledge to understand the world.
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