Shilling for the Feds, Wrestling With a Disability, and Life After the Tsunami

Teacher Magazine ’s take on education news from around the Web, Jan. 7-13.

By Rich Shea

Less than a week after radio and TV pundit Armstrong Williams admitted to being paid $240,000 by the U.S. government to promote NCLB to African Americans, the president proved that, when necessary, he’s quite capable of shilling himself. On January 12, Bush visited a Virginia high school to pitch an NCLB expansion that would establish rigorous math and reading tests at the high school level. Leaving aside the funding issue, some students worried about the extra academic burden. And one questioned the legitimacy of the president’s aims. “In government [class], we’re kind of learning how national levels of government really shouldn’t interfere with local and state levels,” sophomore Electra Bolotas said. “And then he kept saying that, oh, the national level is not going to interfere with the local and state. But this is, like, kind of a national proposal.”

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