What Every Parent, Teacher, and Community Member Needs to Know About No Child Left Behind

That’s the title of a monograph that I picked up at the Mothers Against WASL booth at the WEA Representative Assembly last week here in Spokane. Juanita Doyon was manning the table for the group; I also picked up an autographed copy of Susan Ohanian’s When Childhood Collides with NCLB that I’ll be reading and commenting on in small chunks over the coming weeks.

Regarding the monograph, it’s a dense read that takes some effort to slog through. Good citations, but not written for the laity—you need to have more than a cursory understanding of education reform to be able to process this paper adequately. That said, it’s a pretty good resource to keep at hand, and I’m thinking that I’ll be referring to it on a frequent basis as I do blog posts on the topic.

You can download a copy here.