Health & Fitness
Educators (this one included) Welcome Modifications to No Child Left Behind Law
There is growing consensus that bottom-up solutions with our next generation of Ed Reform should not only be considered, but implemented as soon as possible.
There is growing consensus that bottom-up solutions with our next generation of Ed Reform should not only be considered, but implemented as soon as possible. While a commitment to high, national standards should be applauded, Massachusetts has already been a leader on effective school reform measures going all the way back to 1993 and beyond.
MetroWest school districts and leading regional schools like a Lincoln-Sudbury or Acton-Boxborough should be granted a waiver to emphasize their own accountability measurements over the federal government's.
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As we go forward with implementation, Mass DOE must take care not to replicate Washington and NCLB's one-size-fits all, mixing 'apple and orange' school districts, that unknowingly punish high-performers like LS or AB for not meeting their own lofty accountability goals.
This is another example of top-down policies (i.e. Health Care, Transportation, TARP, HAMP, Stimulus I and II, etc.) NOT working, Mr. President. Better to make the 50 states labratories for reform and experiment, while building a framework for success, rather than micro-manage and ignore the wisdom of the 10th Amendment.