Multiple Choices
February 15, 2008 02:02 PM
Susan Ohanian didn't like my blog post stating that an anti-NCLB video was neither funny nor effective. So, she responds with a multiple choice question.
2. The AFT NCLB blog criticizes
a) Margaret Spellings' statement that NCLB "is like Ivory soap: It's 99.9 percent pure. . . . There's not much needed in the way of change."
b) Senator Edward Kennedy's declaration that NCLB "is a defining issue about the future of our nation and about the future of democracy, the future of liberty, and the future of the United States in leading the free world."
c) Hillary Clinton, for voting for NCLB.
d) Bill Gates for calling for more rigorous curriculum
e) A a tongue-in-cheek video supporting The Educator Roundtable petition calling for the scrapping of NCLB.
Uh, Ms. Ohanian, I didn't know you were a fan of multiple choice tests. Also, this test question doesn't seem to be well designed. It has two right answers. E is one, of course. See here as evidence that A also is a correct answer.
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Comments
But John, ah-em, when our membership massively opposes it, when the public massively opposes it, when even your candidate's spouse calls it "a train wreck'," why wasn't the AFT on board?
Even your candidate? She spoke to our Delegate Assembly in January and suggested that maybe we should "just scrap it." I'll tell you, it got big cheers. UFT members.
So, you know what? The AFT can act all indignant, but the energy and outrage should have been directed against NCLB from the beginning, not against the law's harshest critics.
Posted by: Jonathan | February 16, 2008 09:02 PM
Hi, Jonathan. Thanks for commenting.
I hope it's clear that I'm not expressing much indignation about this, expending much energy on this, or letting fly with much outrage.
I just didn't like the video.
Posted by: John at AFT | February 17, 2008 08:40 PM