Row v. Wade may have thought it cornered the market on grandiose and sustainable controversy in America but No child left behind is moving in fast.
I know someone who in 1977 at the age of nine became a baseball fan. A Detroit native, he fell hard and fast for the team that last year won the American league Championship following thirteen consecutive losing seasons. A lifetime of following and analyzing baseball with a passion whom one could compare to that of Bubba Gump and Shrimp. Yet, when asked “how well do you know the game of inches” my friend would reply “there are those who know more.”
In education it is typical for college professors to ask students to think about a teacher they had that moved them and why. This is also a typical question of educational interviewing panels. I have had many teachers. By this point most of us have. The one who stands out in my mind is a chemistry professor here in Grand Rapids. This man will tell you he was sure he wanted to be a chemist from the time he was a young child. He is married to a chemist. He is head of his department. His friends are all chemists, his accomplishments in the field are many and for those of you who have figured out who I am speaking of, yes he even looks like a chemist. Meaning if you saw him in the health and beauty department in Meijer shaking his head at the legality of selling acetone when it is marketed in the form of nail polish remover you would say to yourself, “I bet that guy is a chemist.” If you ask the good doctor how much he knows about chemistry his response is likely to be “I know far less than I hope to”.
I chose to research no child left behind last night by accident when I caught the tale end of some screenwriting from ” the man behind Ally McBeal”. Murphy Brown long gone Bergen delivered a poignant closing argument that anyone who follows David E. Kelley’s work would recognize as more than just political muse.
My mission is to learn as much as one can fit into a semester about “No Child Left Behind” because while I think I know alot I know less than what I hope to. So far my feeds are from cnn.com and foxnews.com.
