An Open Letter to Federal and State Legislators:

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"Great letter -- our civilization can't afford to regress into black-and-white thinking! Title Science Teacher Address Ivan Sand Community School, Elk River, MN"

"This law is sending good educators to other professions. Please, please remember that lots of hard working, honorable, caring educators can not change what God and genetics have give individual students.l"

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"Absolutely on the mark! I agree completely."

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"Go get 'em, tiger... Title "anything but late for dinner" Address The Ozarks"

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"I applaud this petition because NCLB misrepresents a misunderstanding of education and misrepresents data which was used as the backdrop against which the legislation was created, e.g., school attendance and drop out rates in the state of Texas. NCLB does"

"As an iducator for 40 years, I concur that if we don't concentrate on giving kids the means, motivation, and ability to learn on their own rather than trying to just pour them full of an ever-expanding list of facts, we are going to have an poorly educate"

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"As a special ed. teacher I see increasing frustration and anxiety in my students. They are expected to be at or above grade level just as regular ed students are-except that they would NOT be in special education if they were "at or above " their grade le"

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"THANKS! Title educator"

"Decentralized education works. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/peo_nob_pri_lau . . . . . Using Nobel prizes as a scale of comparison, centralized education doesn't have a good track record. We might want to stop basing our educational-policy decisions"

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