The Greatest Man Since Albert Schweitzer

Anybody who thinks NCLB did more good than harm, especially a so-called educator, needs to be kicked to the curb. Remember, however, Morrison taught only four years before going on the fast track of administration in his materialistic quest for fame and recognition:

Moving to national issues, the reauthorization of NCLB and the waiver program established by the Obama administration have dominated the public discourse. Generally, after 10 years with the expanded federal role under NCLB, there seems to be a movement toward more state and local autonomy. Most tellingly, the Adequate Yearly Progress system would be eliminated under legislation proposed in both the House and the Senate, replaced with state accountability metrics. What is the importance of local autonomy in public education?

I’m a big believer that the closer you are to the problem, the closer you are to the solution. I certainly appreciate the federal government’s role in trying to improve education, and I respect the state’s role, and I think local governments and school boards all have a role. Trying to figure that out in a very smart way and a very systemic way is critical.

What I like that is happening with [Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s] waiver process is that there is a recognition from Washington that there should be some broad themes that resonate with school reform and accountability and what we have to do to educate children at high levels. Once those broad themes have been established, states and local school districts then adjust those broader concepts, rather than something that’s so narrow and so focused that it’s really hard to make it work across 15,000 school districts across the country. That’s what I appreciate about the waiver process.

I think sometimes [the waiver program has] been misrepresented across the country as a waiver from accountability. There is high accountability. The major themes are adopting Common Core standards and reinvigorating and reinvesting in human capital, making sure we’ve got great teachers in every school, and then creating an accountability that operates at a high level. So it’s not that you don’t have accountability. It’s hopefully much smarter accountability.
I have always said over 10 years that NCLB did more good than it did negative. It put a focus on kids that have traditionally been underserved. It brought accountability to public education when many people didn’t want to see that happen. What happened with NCLB was that it was hard to explain to parents, when there are 36 different measures with math and reading, and you’re at a school where you missed one target in those 36 measures, that the entire school was deemed failing or not adequate. That didn’t make sense. It didn’t pass the common sense test. We have a chance to bring a smarter accountability system. One thing I love that we’re doing in Nevada is we’re really emphasizing not only proficiency and status, but also growth. That’s going to be our way to committing that all kids have to get better.

He is so anti-teacher, having barely been one himself, it is sickening. He helped campaign for the gutting of civil service protections for teachers ("tenure" or "post-probationary" status) in Nevada.

It's all about demonizing teachers or whatever idea the billionaires bankrolling his corrupt regime want.

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But what do I know? I am only an educator, or was, although I still think of myself as one.

Next thing you know, Morrison will be nominated for a Nobel Prize: