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Twenty years after the Reagan administration discovered that ours is “a nation at risk” and that our educational system is rampant with inequality, the potent political rhetoric of “standards-based?? reform dominates the important debate regarding education reform. In order to leave no child behind, government establishes what it calls high standards, aligns curriculum and pedagogy with these so-called standards, tests students to see if they meet the standards, and holds students, teachers, and schools accountable for test results. The logic is clear, but the premise is false...
MCAS and the “standards-based?? reform movement simply support the status quo: high standards represented by thought-provoking curriculum for the advantaged, low standards represented by the mindless memorization of soon-to-be forgotten facts for the disadvantaged. For us, that is—to borrow President Bush’s phrase—the real soft bigotry of low expectations...
Bergmann and students suggest the addition of a dance theory or history course to the Core Curriculum, and say Harvard’s impending curricular review may be an opportunity to add dance classes—both performance- and theory-based??to the course catalog...
...ashamed of our national leaders as the war we are about to start in Iraq. I am ashamed of the act of starting a war against a country that has neither attacked nor immediately threatened us and of the very dangerous principle on which the act seems to be based??that we have a unilateral right to begin a war against any country that cannot prove to us that it has no highly dangerous weapons, no matter what the rest of the world thinks. Since we obviously would not accord that right to anyone else, it rests...
...humanities are less empirically based??there’s less of a distinction between right and wrong and more latitude for subjectivity,” Thomas said...