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June 2007 > Events
Distinguished Panel Leads Lively
Cal Day Panel on NCLB
Principal Karling Aguilera-Fort makes a point as law professor Goodwin Liu and GSE professor Cynthia Coburn look on.
School teachers and administrators took turns offering informed opinions about the No Child Left Behind education initiative at a Cal Day Panel at the GSE on April 21.
The panel, moderated by School of Education associate professor Cynthia Coburn, began when Boalt Hall School of Law professor Goodwin Liu traced the political and policy roots of NCLB from George H. W. Bush’s 1989 Educational Summit through his son’s signing of the historic legislation. Liu, who served as Deputy Secretary of Education during the Clinton administration, left little doubt about his reservations with NCLB's impact, when he said, “It’s all sticks and no carrots.”
Karling Aguilera-Fort, principal of Fairmount Elementary, has witnessed NCLB's impact at his San Francisco school. He says that his students, many of whom are English language learners, live in fear. “Accountability should left to kids, parents and the community, not the ‘feds,’ ” he said.
Other panelists were:
Susan Audap, coach Oakland schools;
Ricardo Cooke, English teacher Capuchino High School, San Mateo;
Michele Lawrence, superintendent Berkeley Unified School District;
Jonathan Stewart, Reading First coach Brookfield Elementary School, Oakland
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