Greg Toppo of USA Today, Ed Trust’s Amy Wilkins, Joel Packer of the NEA and others chew on No Child Left Behind on WAMU’s Diane Rehm show (Katty Kay of the BBC guest hosts). Listen here.
Wilkins understates the degree to which testing has narrowed curriculum, but lays the blame on the states anyway. “What we’ve seen in too many states and too many school districts, is they’re leaving teachers without a good strong curriculum,” says Wilkins, who wants to see the Feds “provide states with money to develop good strong rich curriculum tools. The way to raise student achievement is a broad, rich, deep curriculum. The problem is the states and the districts haven’t provided teachers with those curriculum tools leaving teachers with only the tests to teach too.”
Toppo points out the futility of talking about comparisons between the U.S. and other countries since “there 50 different standards, one for each state.”
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