How to Fix It: Leave No Child Left Behind...Behind

By Deborah Meier, cofounder of the Forum for Education and Democracy

September/October 2008 Issue

How to Fix It Menu How to Fix It: The First 10 Minutes How to Fix It: Start With the CIA How to Fix It: Build a Bigger, Better, Medicare How to Fix It: Clean the House of Justice How to Fix It: Cut Up the Plastic How to Fix It: Declare CO₂ a Pollutant How to Fix It: Don't Let the Press Forget How to Fix It: Get NASA Back on Mission How to Fix It: Help Americans Ditch Their Cars How to Fix It: Leave No Child Left Behind...Behind How to Fix It: Let the Sun Shine In How to Fix It: Look Beyond Iraq How to Fix It: Lose the Drug War How to Fix It: Pink-Slip the God Squad How to Fix It: Rebuild Schools and Roads How to Fix It: Remember Polk, Grant, and Harding How to Fix It: Rethink National Security How to Fix It: Save the Middle Class How to Fix It: Stop Leasing Public Lands How to Fix It: Stop Outsourcing the CIA How to Fix It: Take the Fed Public How to Fix It: Trust Gen Y TOOLS E-mail article Print article BACKTALK E-mail the editor

"nclb was bound to have bad outcomes. It appealed to people who think the quick fix for education is to threaten people. But the state of education today is a long-term legacy starting with 'A Nation at Risk' in 1983, which revolved around our problems with Japan, lower sat scores, and the feeling that teachers were sabotaging America. There's nothing short-range you can do to fix education directly. It's labor intensive. You have to change the way people act. You have to convince people, and change people.

"And the president can play a psychological role. When the president is a dummy, putting down smart people, it makes it harder for kids to know he is serious. Bush was a dumbing-down model of what it means to be an educated person. The president can play a role in education by modeling it, by not telling lies and not making up history."

Read an extended interview with Deborah Meier about the Bush legacy here.

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