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CAT Tracks for December 10, 2015
LEAVING NCLB BEHIND |
From the National Education Association
With Passage of Every Student Succeeds Act, Life After NCLB Begins
CAT Tracks Editor's Note:
Okay, that was the glass-half-full view of ESSA...
...now, for a couple of glass-half-empty viewpoints:
From Diane Ravitch's Blog
Nicholas Tampio: Is ESSA a Hoax?
What the BATs Think About ESSA
Sadly...
...another of Diane Ravitch's posts begins with the sentence:
Well, hell...
...here in the Land of Lincoln, which happens to be the land of Barack Obama and Arne Duncan (not to even mention Bruce Almighty)...
...in the "union friendly" state where the Democrats conspired with the Illinois Education Association to destroy tenure...
...I'd say that our glass is EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY!!!
Or...
...that our put-a-happy-face-on-it, spin-zone practitioners are just "full of it".
Okay (deep breath) as a loyal CAT Tracks reader comforted me following a previous rant...
...rewriting NCLB and reigning in RTTT, it's progress.
Or as she put it:
"Baby steps."
"The fight for better education for all now shifts to the states."
