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The summer issue contains three articles at http://nochildleft.com 1. No More Recess: The New American Sweatshop By Jamie McKenzie http://nochildleft.com/2005/sum05recess.html We have a new American Sweatshop emerging as NCLB causes many school districts to take drastic measures like eliminating recess for elementary children. 2. Adding Insult to Injury By Jamie McKenzie http://nochildleft.com/2005/sum05redherring.html Finally a state, Connecticut, has stood up to the educational regime in D.C., suing them for imposing unfunded and harmful mandates on the states. The Secretary of Ed rapidly moved to discredit her critics, accusing them of using a "red herring." 3. Soviet Style Planning in the Good Old USA? By Jamie McKenzie http://nochildleft.com/2005/sum05stalin.html Top down, federal dictation of educational policy is fundamentally un-American and undemocratic. For decades we were raised to view the Russian and Chinese state management of economies and societies as a bureaucratic nightmare. ----- Subscribe for Free ----- Let your friends and colleagues know they may subscribe to No Child Left for free at http://www.listcast.com/x?oid=23661w Jamie McKenzie Editor, No Child Left http://nochildleft.com mckenzie@fno.org FNO Press 500 15th Street Bellingham, WA 98225 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. * LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://elann.biglist.com/sub/ * LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html --------------------------------------------------------------------