Given my brother's interest in the No Child Left Behind Act, I'm posting this link to an article in The Washington Post on a Catholic school in the District. When reading it you may note that there is something of a disconnect between the policies of NCLB and vouchers for religious schools - the religious schools don't have to publish their test scores. In fact according to an administrator "wider dissemination would lead to superficial comparisons between schools". Uh-huh. I thought it was essential to ensure "accountability" and to makes sure no child is left behind. I'm sure there are some government-funded public schools that would like to avoid publishing their scores too. For those of you who like these tests, should there be a common standard on this?
Posted by armand at June 17, 2005 10:51 AM | TrackBack | Posted to PoliticsWow, a special post for me, thanks, Bro. I'm not sure I'm quite so upset as you about this, it isn't like it's compulsory for working parents to send their kids to these Catholic schools. Tha being said, if I were one of the parents of a child in these schools, I wouldn't be so comfortable not knowing how children there were doing. But I guess if the devil they know isn't educating their kids, they'll turn to the devil the don't know (nice analogy for a post on catholic schools, right?).
Posted by: Morris at June 18, 2005 05:36 PM | PERMALINK