Beltway Reading Bosses

[Jamie McKenzie <fromnowon@EARTHLINK.NET>]

NCLB - Beltway Reading or the Highway!

No Child Left
Volume II, Number 2, February, 2004

There are four articles and a cartoon this month all available
for reading at http://nochildleft.com

1. Beltway Bosses:
It's Beltway or the Highway - DC Reading Bosses
Dictate Programs for the Big Apple
http://www.nochildleft.com/2004/feb04ourway.html

2. No Job Left Behind: Fiddling in Washington as
Good Jobs Flee Offshore
The loss of nearly three million good factory jobs during the Bush
administration is soon to be followed by the loss of another three
million well paid jobs during the next few years - white collar jobs
being exported as fast as call centers and engineering departments
can be created overseas.  What does this have to do with
NCLB/Helter-Skelter?
http://www.nochildleft.com/2004/feb04nojob.html

3. Write Congress!
By classroom teacher Barbara Manna
Many Senators and U.S. Representatives were unaware of the damage
and hidden agendas built into NCLB when they approved the law.  Here is
an excellent letter from a classroom teacher outlining the problems she
sees in trying to serve students under the rules and provisions of NCLB.
http://www.nochildleft.com/2004/feb04letter.html

4. What about Passion?
By classroom teacher Karen E. Joslin
They spoke of states and school systems following the letter of the
law but not the passion of the law. But education is not really about
states and school systems. It is about individuals, teachers and
children. I am not a state or a system, I am a teacher. I work with
children. I so fully agree with the passion; I live the heart and
soul of No Child Left Behind. I want to believe it is possible to
reach every child. I do believe every child can be a success. But I
disagree with the letter of this law. There are several serious flaws.
http://www.nochildleft.com/2004/feb04passion.html

5. Cartoon - Don't think too hard! Heavily scripted, federally
approved reading programs are often light on thinking and
comprehension, condemning poor children to a future of low skilled
and low paid jobs.
http://www.nochildleft.com/cartoon21.html

--
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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