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More money for less accountability? I don't think so!(Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right)(Book review)
Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right
By Richard Rothstein, Rebecca Jacobsen and Tamara Wilder
Economic Policy Institute and Teachers College Press, 2008, $19.95; 263 pages.
Some may take this wrong-headed book seriously, given the credentials of lead author Richard Rothstein, former New York Times education columnist, all-around smarty, and veteran maneuverer on the education-policy chessboard. Its timing is deft, too, as it savages the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and offers recommendations for its overhaul (overthrow, really) just as a new administration and Congress face its reauthorization.
Rothstein and a pair of junior colleagues advance three central theses, all of which are wrong--though they'll appeal to a strange alliance of progressive educators and (up to a point) conservative Republicans.
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