"Billionaires Bill Gates and Eli Broad (the infamous teacher-basher of the Broad Foundation) have just announced a $60 million publicity blitz calling for the STRENGTHENING of NCLB [No Child Left Behind]. This is their countermove to the growing grass-roots movement in opposition to the authoritarian, corporate standardistas' high stakes testing regime. The two rich boys are recycling the crisis mongering of "A Nation At Risk" to promote the ratcheting up of their version of "accountability" (of the poor to the rich). Here Marty Solomon answers their deceptive lies and rhetoric, point by point.
From: Martin Solomon <mbsolomon at aol.com <mailto:mbsolomon at aol.com>>"
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