http://www.truthdig.com/wellford_wilms Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2008 2008-05-01T05:24:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080430_liberating_the_schoolhouse/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080430_liberating_the_schoolhouse/ academic, administrator, baldwin park, california, campus, education, high school, infante, kozol, leadership, liberating the schoolhouse, media, no child left behind, skvarna, students, study, teacher, ucla, wilms,

UCLA professor Wellford Wilms, one of the nation’s leading authorities on the crisis of public education in America, offers a must-read counterpoint to Bush’s blather about “No Child Left Behind.”

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The director of the Education Leadership Program at UCLA forcefully argues that public education funds must be diverted from bloated bureaucracies and redirected into the schools, where principals, teachers and parents can meaningfully influence what is being taught.

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