No Child Left Behind Watch

SD DECA Testing/Assessment

Charles Murray, “Acid Tests: No Child Left Behind Is Beyond Uninformative. It Is Deceptive.” (Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal.com, 2006.07.25)

States Omit Minorities' School Scores
(AP 2006.04.17)
[My question -- how do I get my kids' scores omitted?]

Leaving Behind the Children of Katrina
(Huffington Post.com, 2005.09.04)

Cato Institute on federal education policy

...Irrational Expectations” (Ken Goodman, professor emeritus, College of Education, University of Arizona, Arizona Daily Star, 2005.01.29)

"Schoolhouse Rocked" -- notes on home-schooling in Massachusetts -- "as many as 20,000 children here have abandoned test-crazy public schools" (Michelle Bates Deakin, Boston Globe, 2004.03.21)

"Don't Know History? Here's Why" (Jacqueline Hall, Boston Globe, 2004.03.20)

How did we get here? Where might we go? Ask John Taylor Gatto at The Odysseus Group.

"Built to Fail" -- NCLB designed to wreck public ed (Britt Robson, City Pages, 2004.03.10)

Rebellion stirring (CSMonitor, 2004.02.11)

Commentary on study on Texas standardized test scores (Julian Borger, UK Guardian, 2003.12.04)

"NoMoreTests.com" (featuring "The Best Standardized Test Ever")

Red tape snares school principals (CSM 2003.11.26)

Teachers Forum for Empowerment and Rights
(2003.06.18)

Westchester schools faulted for failing to prevent test boycott (AP 2001.10.31)

Ralph Nader on standardized tests