Postado originalmente na Uol em 18/12/2011

Face ao debate que se instala nos Estados Unidos e, claro, no Brasil sobre a definição de expectativas de aprendizagem é bom recuperarmos o livro de Deborah Meier (2000).

Debate: Will standards save public education?

I recently read Deborah Meier’s Will Standards Save Public Education? The book is a “New Democracy Forum” debate produced by the fantastic Boston Review (www.bostonreview.net).

 It includes contributions by Deborah Meier, Jonathan Kozol, Ted Sizer, Gary Nash, Linda Nathan, Abigail Thernstrom, Richard Murnane, William Ayers, and Bob Chase (former NEA President). The book was published in 2000, but it is more relevant than ever because of the Obama administration’s push for national standards, the recent release of the Common Core standards in reading and math that are likely to serve as the basis of these standards, and the ongoing debate about the future of No Child Left Behind, a piece of standards-and-accountability legislation that has transformed the educational landscape in ways positive and negative, expected and unexpected.