I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.

Katie
Eric
Ashley
Chris
Christie
Dan
Michael
Tyler
Hilary
and Hilary again

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As this semester, and thus this journal, come to a close, I’m finding that the whole experience wasn’t as painful as I thought it was going to be.  I’m not very tech-savvy, so having to do such an assignment, with RSS feeds, Google Reader, and a blog site that wasn’t LiveJournal, was very daunting at [...]

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For the most part I have focused this journal on No Child Left Behind’s impact in Michigan, but I found this article/blog post through my RSS reader and could not help but post it here.
Alyson Beahm, an elementary teacher in San Francisco, wrote in to the San Francisco Chronicle describing how NCLB has hampered her [...]

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Apparently there is a major issue surrounding how states judge whether a student has achieved the proper scores to graduate high school. Under No Child Left Behind, the states can customize their own passing standards and then report the numbers of students they graduate every year. Members of Congress feel that this leads [...]

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I feel like a broken record, reporting over and over again about failing schools in Detroit. But this time, the article I found in the Detroit News found that nearly half of the 1,149 schools throughout the state of Michigan have failed to meet their Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) goals. While these results [...]

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