Presidential Hopefuls Tell NEA Delegates What They Want to Hear
Philadelphia
They could, for the most part, have been reading from the National Education Association’s talking points.
The seven Democratic candidates for president who trooped through the annual convention of the nation’s largest union here this week blasted the No Child Left Behind Act. To a one, they blamed the legislation for spurring too much testing. And most of them accused it of narrowing the curriculum and depriving children of chances to think deeper, solve problems, and get creative.
“Children are getting good at filling in those little bubbles,” said U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, “but how much creativity is being left...
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