Duncan continues to be wrong and wrong

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Posted Thu, 09/24/2009 - 13:27 by plthom3

Secretary of Education Duncan continues to be wrong and wrong: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-09-23-duncan-education-refor.... The current administration maintains a commitment to failed accountability and testing paradigms that have never worked and will never work. Duncan's call for "urgency" continues the crisis rhetoric that has never worked and will never work. Critical educators must seek ways to enter this discourse and help all stakeholders in education understand that accountability/testing and urgency are prone to maintaining the status quo, not alleviating the burden of poverty that crippples children seeking education. See some of my concerns about these failures in the newest issue of Power and Education: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/power/content/pdfs/1/issue1_2.asp paul thomas

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Transcript of Duncan's talk

by plthom3 - 09/25/2009 - 19:18

Duncan's talk is filled with flawed—and tired—calls for what matters in education: http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/2009/09/09242009.html

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