December 31, 2007 12:04 PM
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No Parent Left Behind
John Edwards speaks to every parent whose child is being tortured by standardized testing taking over the classroom thanks to the testing mania of no child left behind. (Can you tell I speak from personal experience?)
Sound bite: "I don't believe a child learns anything filling out a bubble on a cheap, standardized test... A friend of mine from South Carolina says, 'You don't make a hog fatter by weighing.'"
Sound bite: "I don't believe a child learns anything filling out a bubble on a cheap, standardized test... A friend of mine from South Carolina says, 'You don't make a hog fatter by weighing.'"
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