A letter to Secretary Arne Duncan

[proud2BlibKansan]

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July 16, 2010
Dear Secretary Duncan:

Reading your comments in the Kansas City Star entitled, “Education is Civil Rights Issue of Our Generation,’ I simply had to write.

I agree wholeheartedly with your comments. However, the DOE’s Blueprint for Reform and Race to the Top competitive grants abandon the very children who desperately need to be educated--those who are English language learners, the poverty stricken, homeless, autistic, disabled, etc.

The DOE’s reform initiatives and criteria to ’win’ grant money narrow the curriculum by its obsessive focus on standardized tests.

The DOE’s reform initiatives and criteria to ’win’ grants not only reinforce teaching to the test and constant test prep, but demand it.

more . . . http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/education-secretary-duncan/a-letter-to-secretary-duncan.html

[BrklynLiberal]

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