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New Content at SusanOhanian.Org!
Fri, 19 Dec 2003 16:53:58 -0600 (CST)
- To: announce@susanohanian.org
- Subject: New Content at SusanOhanian.Org!
- From: Susan Ohanian <susano@gmavt.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 16:53:58 -0600 (CST)
If our holiday cartoon doesn't make you smile, you need to take a break.
Susan
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San Francisco Superintendent Contract Extended Through June 2007
Nanette Asimov
San Francisco Chronicle
2003-12-16
http://susanohanian.org/show_atrocities.php?id=1524
A divided San Francisco Board of Education has quietly extended Superintendent Arlene Ackerman's contract by another year, with one commissioner calling the decision irresponsible and another declaring
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Testament to Testing
Nanette Asimov
San Francisco Chronicle
2003-12-18
http://susanohanian.org/show_atrocities.php?id=1525
This article is a paean to testing.
Last year the boy couldn't read, and his teacher had no idea why. This year, the boy took a test that revealed his specific problem: He did not know the sounds corresponding to each letter. That meant he was not ready to learn which letters made up each word. At last his teacher knew how to help him.
This sounds like a Dick and Jane parody, doesn't it?
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Getting Ready for Kindergarten
Des Moines Register
2003-12-19
http://susanohanian.org/show_atrocities.php?id=1526
Kids who might be young for kindergarten, enroll in a special class to get prepped on letter sounds and writing numbers.
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High Court Throws Out No-pass, No-drive
Herald-Leader
2003-12-19
http://susanohanian.org/show_atrocities.php?id=1527
The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the "no pass, no drive" law is unconstitutional. Under Kentucky's no-pass, no-drive law, adopted voluntarily by all but 40 of the state's 176 school districts, the state has denied or revoked teen-agers' licenses nearly 23,000 times since 1996.
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1 in 4 in Arizona's Class of '02 Didn't Receive a Diploma
Arizona Republic
2003-12-19
http://susanohanian.org/show_atrocities.php?id=1528
A state study released Thursday showed nearly one out of four students of Arizona's Class of 2002 failed to earn a high school diploma after five years. The state knows some students dropped out, but thousands of others simply disappeared from the system.
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Some Criteria for Intelligent Accountability
Terry Crooks
2003-12-18
http://susanohanian.org/show_commentary.php?id=191
This is a long and serious work on accountability, a work worth reading.
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True and False
New York Times Magazine
2003-12-21
http://susanohanian.org/show_nclb_atrocities.html?id=285
Traub, of the NY Times Magazine and an avowed fan of NCLB, sarcastly says no 4th graders have died from the testing.
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Progressive Democrats, Won't You Please Come Home
The New Republic
2003-12-19
http://susanohanian.org/show_nclb_stories.html?id=87
Here's an exchange about Howard Dean's views of NCLB followed by a New Age, so-called progressive democrat's defense of NCLB.
