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Of no child left behind for newark? look, i m one of those people who said, we should have accountability. it s lack of accountability in government and public schools that has allowed the mediocrity and even failure to flourish. but the reality is the harsh, punitive testing realities of pulling back of federal funds. if we don t meet unrealistic benchmarks has created an atmosphere in america where we re too testing obsessed. i m a person who believes you should have objective criteria for measuring success, but what s happening right now in the united states of america is people squeezing out everything else in education to focus on performance on standardized tests. and many states are dumbing down the tests just to meet the federal standards, which is really the wrong way of approaching it. what we should do is have clear 21st century standards, ways of measuring progress towards those standards that are fair and realistic. and we should have, you know, i think we ve, dammed as ....

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