bill mathis - on nclb

http://dianeravitch.net/2013/07/12/william-mathis-nclb-reauthorization-is-a-bipartisan-disaster/

“Today, both Democrat and Republican versions of the reauthorization give vacant, distracted nods to these principles. They fail to ring with great purpose. They do not stir the soul. They are unlovely and parrot our social and economic strategies. In both they punish the poor, loudly proclaim liberty and
equality, and provide only the rhetoric of opportunities.”