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Friday, September 08, 2006
Posted
10:08 PM
by Susan Darst Williams
SOMEONE AT UNL TEACHERS' COLLEGE
GETS IT!!!
I was very pleased to see this Wall Street Journal letter to the editor quoted on one of my education listservs the other day:
"No Child Left Behind is a valiant effort to rationalize the fundamentally irrational, centrally-planned system that is our public school monolith. Like the Soviets, we can . . . tweak and adjust 'proficiency standards' and 'adequate yearly progress' forever to get the NCLB's heart ticking smoothly. None of it will matter. The system is flawed and . . . will wind up on the ash heap of history. . . . (O)nly fundamental reform that establishes a market-based system using educational vouchers to allocate resources through consumer choice will work." (Karl Borden, Professor of Finance, University of Nebraska, April 22, 2005)
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