Tag: NCLB
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The Federal 'No Child Left Behind' Act NCLB
'No Child Left Behind' is formally named the ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act.) The 2002 version of ESEA, also known as 'No Child Left Behind' or 'NCLB', has turned our schools into testing factories where knowledge and wisdom are given second place to the selling strategies of big textbook manufacturers and testing companies. This is part of an overall privatization of public educati ...
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On My Son’s First Day of Kindergarten: OurSchoolsAreNotFailing.org organizes communities to defend their schools from NCLB
Jesse Hagopian - Today is the first day of school in Seattle. I have never been more excited and nervous for the first day because, not only do I start teaching, but my 5-year-old starts kindergarten ...
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Counter-recruitment is crucial to anti-war movement
Pat Elder - The mainstream peace and justice movement is beginning to see that countering military recruitment deserves a higher priority and should be viewed in strategic, rather than tactical terms ...
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