Susan Neuman, a professor of education at the University Michigan who served as Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education during George W. Bush's first term, was and still is a fervent believer in the goals of NCLB. And she says the President and then Secretary of Education Rod Paige were too. But there were others in the department, according to Neuman, who saw NCLB as a Trojan horse for the choice agenda — a way to expose the failure of public education and "blow it up a bit," she says. "There were a number of people pushing hard for market forces and privatization."
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Tech Bros and Hos Beware: The Learning Counterrevolution is Here
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From an excellent essay in the NYTimes on the impending demise of gamification
in schools and the return to learning:
. . . . Ms. Drygas [NC history teac...
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