Transform Education

Our public schools help create the people of the future. The people of the future create the world. For there to be social and economic justice in our world, our goal must be to prepare all children for the conversations that create the future. We can transform education and we can close the educational achievement gap only if we are willing to address the real sources of this gap and only if we are prepared to stand up for free, high-quality education for all children as their civil right.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Linda Darling-Hammond's Testimony

This is Linda Darling-Hammond's testimony before the House Education and Labor Committee on the Re-Authorization of NCLB.

Notice that she focuses on competitiveness as the lynchpin of her argument.

So does this indicate that anti-NCLB'ers like Darling-Hammond accept the competitiveness rationale? Or is this Darling-Hammond being cagey, knowing that the only thing that will get the attention of politicians is to couch everything inside of the competitiveness frame?

If the former, it reminds me of Lakoff's point about "tax relief."

We don't question the whole notion of "competitiveness" as a ridiculous canard.