Cooking the Books? Summer issue of No Child Left

[Jamie McKenzie <fromnowon@EARTHLINK.NET>]

You will find the free summer issue of No Child Left
at http://nochildleft.com


------------   Cooking the Education Books?
Works of Mass Deception? (WMD) -------------

Miracle?

If you cook the books and hide the true number of drop outs in your
high schools, it turns out you can inflate the bottom line much like
Enron and some other corporations - especially if those students are
your worst performers.

Eliminate the bottom of a class and test scores soar like any good
Dotcom stock IPO.

The statistics are simple. The appearance of improvement is
deceptive. The abandonment of children is apparent.

This is hardly a recipe for healthy educational reform, but the
Superintendent of Schools in charge of the Houston ISD at the time of
these accounting errors is now the education Czar - the Secretary of
Education in Washington - the one calling for accountability and
scientifically proven strategies.

While Enron and Arthur Anderson were busy on the corporate front . . .

Continued at http://nochildleft.com/2003/sum03wmd.html

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Watch for a special September article devoted to the impact of NCLB
(AKA Helter-Skelter) on school libraries and library programs.

First published online in ALA's KQWeb members only section this June,
"NCLB: AKA "Helter-Skelter?" will be republished by No Child Left
for all to enjoy.


--
Jamie McKenzie
Editor
No Child Left
editor@nochildleft.com
http://nochildleft.com

FNO Press
500 15th Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
360-647-8759

"Because this new law gambles irresponsibly with
children and schools using unproven change strategies
and radical "free market" approaches it should be called
Helter-Skelter."

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