Schools Matter: New York Times: Corporate Education Reform's Newspaper of Record

Schools Matter: New York Times: Corporate Education Reform's Newspaper of Record:

New York Times: Corporate Education Reform's Newspaper of Record

by Jim Horn

Brent Staples of the NYTimes Editorial Board has put his own unique brand of cynical and disingenuous stupidity on the NCLB waiver plan:

The 2002 No Child Left Behind Act focused the country’s attention on school reform as never before, but the law is far from perfect. The Obama administration is wise to address its flaws, since Congress is four years overdue in updating the law.

The Department of Education’s plan gives states that agree to several reforms — including stringent teacher evaluation systems and new programs for overhauling the worst schools — an exemption from many of the law’s requirements. It would permit the states to change the way they