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NCLB: A Foolish Venture
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But during the last decade, as we moved from stating the need for standards, assessment, and accountability to implementing these objectives, politicians and other policy makers abandoned the needs of the present and the future and slithered back down into the comfortable, the known, the seemingly risk-free agenda and tools of the industrial paradigm -- the paradigm of the past. Bill Clinton, Louis Gerstner, Richard Riley, the governors of most states, and now George W. Bush and Rod Paige -- all have completely missed the opportunity to respond even to the needs of the present, let alone the future. Just look at the Bush/Kennedy curriculum: it consists of reading and math and then maybe science.
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