[lbo-talk] Class dismissed....

[joanna]

But wait, it gets better. Part of the problem of the No Child Left 
Behind crap is that it uses up a lot of class time and education money 
on preparing for, taking, and evaluating these tests. When my daughter 
was in fifth grade, I volunteered to spend two hours a week doing poetry 
and drama with her class. The teacher was all for it. I started working 
with them and I spent about sixty hours of my time rewriting 
"Midsummer's Night's Dream" into a one-hour play that they could 
perform. Unfortunately, due to the huge amount of time needed for test 
preparation and test taking, we had to give up working on the play after 
the initial read-through.

Joanna

Mike Ballard wrote:


>http://www.gregpalast.com/printerfriendly.cfm?artid=476
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>NO CHILD'S BEHIND LEFT: THE TEST 
>Tuesday, January 10, 2006 
>by Greg Palast
>
>New York -- Today and tomorrow every 8-year-old in the state of New York will
>take a test. It's part of George Bush's No Child Left Behind program. The
>losers will be left behind to repeat the third grade. Try it yourself. This is
>from the state's actual practice test. Ready, class?
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