<![CDATA[New York City: Leading the Charge Toward an Educational Abyss]]>

1.0 link 50221 <![CDATA[New York City: Leading the Charge Toward an Educational Abyss]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-brown/new-york-city-leading-the_b_50221.html High-stakes standardized testing is moving forward like a thousand-ton tank. President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, soon to be up for renewal, defines accountability through Scantron bubble test scores, and education officials across the country have obediently leaped at the order to test, test, test our country's children. The disenfranchising fallout, for teachers and students, of year-round, test-obsessed oversight has been massive and tragic. And Gotham's top brass are pushing us deeper into the abyss.

The New York Times...

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