Rewriting the Script

Illustration: Randall Enos

The eight essays that make up our special “Rewriting the Script” section offer a devastating indictment of the sorry state of teaching and learning that No Child Left Behind has wrought. There is also hope for the future.

Seeking changes within the NCLB framework is not the way to begin the next four-year term, says FairTest’s Monty Neill in the lead essay, “Beyond NCLB.” Neill urges progressive educators and activists to think outside the NCLB box, to be audacious, to search for new language and demands that more adequately reflect what we want rather than merely what we think they can get. The special section includes work from Rethinking Schools editors Linda Christensen and Wayne Au, as well as teachers, activists, and teacher educators.

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