http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/14/failure-mistakes-and-nclb/ Weblog of Wesley Fryer Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/14/failure-mistakes-and-nclb/comment-page-1/#comment-30762 Moving at the Speed of Creativity » Blog Archive » Criticizing policies not people Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:59:56 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/14/failure-mistakes-and-nclb/#comment-30762 [...] The point I am wanting to express is that I do NOT intend to directly criticize or blame teachers or administrators as a group when I assert that NCLB has been a dismal failure and has taken our educational system in the wrong direction. Yes, as individuals educators (like everyone else) do bear responsibility for their actions. Corporately, however, just as the U.S. military has been required to promulgate an extended land war in Asia with an open-ended commitment by our political leaders, educators have similarly been tasked with the responsibility of establishing and enforcing a fear-laden educational culture of high-stakes accountability and testing for elementary and secondary students in public schools. The fact that these policies were created by elected officials is not the fault of teachers, any more than it is the fault of servicemen and women that our nation went to war in Iraq. [...] [...] The point I am wanting to express is that I do NOT intend to directly criticize or blame teachers or administrators as a group when I assert that NCLB has been a dismal failure and has taken our educational system in the wrong direction. Yes, as individuals educators (like everyone else) do bear responsibility for their actions. Corporately, however, just as the U.S. military has been required to promulgate an extended land war in Asia with an open-ended commitment by our political leaders, educators have similarly been tasked with the responsibility of establishing and enforcing a fear-laden educational culture of high-stakes accountability and testing for elementary and secondary students in public schools. The fact that these policies were created by elected officials is not the fault of teachers, any more than it is the fault of servicemen and women that our nation went to war in Iraq. [...]

]]> http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/14/failure-mistakes-and-nclb/comment-page-1/#comment-30674 Sarah Mcintosh Puglisi Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:28:02 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/14/failure-mistakes-and-nclb/#comment-30674 Thank you Sarah Puglisi Thank you
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