There has been a lot of talk about the waiver program for the No Child Left Behind law's unreachable goals, that was unveiled last week. MCPS Superintendent Joshua Starr recently said: "No Child Left Behind has outlived its usefulness. We need to start looking at 21st-century skills, and we need to be more innovative."
Richard Rothstein writes on his blog about winning, but really losing, a four year old bet with Diane Ravitch about the long term implications of NCLB and his and Ms. Ravitch's thoughts on how the federal government would deal with them.
The questions remains, will this waiver program be something that empowers locals school systems to continue to improve education or will it simply add to the pile of test and other accountability measures?
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