Wheaton prof featured in No Child Left Behind discussion

Join Wheaton Professor Mary Lee Griffin for a one-hour live online session Tuesday, March 9 at 2 p.m. ET to discuss what the No Child Left Behind Act means for your kids.

Wheaton education professor Mary Lee Griffin is a proponent of standards and quality education, but she is also an outspoken opponent of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, broad legal legislation that will potentially affect school kids of all ages and abilities. It requires each state to establish learning standards at each grade level, then provide testing that proves kids have indeed learned what they're supposed to learn, when they're supposed to learn it. There's even a deadlinethat all kids must successfully meet those standards by 2014.

''NCLB has changed the climate, culture and day-to-day activities of schools. If we look closely at it, we find that it is not particularly caring to children, and actually leaves more behind than previous education initiatives,'' says Mary-Lee Prescott Griffin, Ph.D., a literacy scholar and education professor at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass.

Her public commentaries on the failings of federal education policy earned her an invitation to discuss the subject in an online chat with Washington Post education writer Evelyn Vuko. The online discussion is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, March 9, at 2 p.m. You can tune in to the discussion and post your own questions for Professor Griffin by visiting http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/liveonline/education/teachersays/

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More about Professor Mary Lee Griffin
http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/Faculty/MaryLeeGriffin.html