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Article: Educating teachers in California (or drowning in alphabet soup).
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- Radical Teacher
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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In January, with great fanfare, President Bush signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the so-called "No Child Left Behind" Act of 2001. Among other provisions it requires students across the nation to take math and reading achievement tests yearly in grades 3-8. The passage of this act was only a minor blip on my radar screen given the high stakes testing system already in place in California, where I have been teaching teachers for the past twelve years. I had already grown accustomed to my students' queries about how they were supposed to build curriculum upon students' interests, teach culturally responsive lessons, and promote critical thinking, ...