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September 19, 2007
The Jonathan Adkins Diet?Education advocate Jonathan Kozol is on a hunger strike. What? You heard it. USA Today reports in yesterday's “A Better Life” section that Kozol, known for his passionate tales of children and public education, such as Savage Inequalities, is on the “75th day of a partial hunger strike to protest” the No Child Left Behind Act.
Long gone is the day when hunger strikes were reserved for IRA inmates in British prisons. Apparently casting a nodding glance to suffragettes, Kozol seeks to compel the chair of “the Senate Education Committee, to commit to ‘a stark reduction in the use of standardized exams’ to measure [student] progress” under NCLB. And, while committee chair Ted Kennedy may in fact be willing to meet with Kozol, the paper reports that not all education advocates have taken a shine to Kozol’s methods. “Amy Wilkins of the Education Trust” says his “fast is misguided.”
BoardBuzz agrees that there are better ways to fry up the proverbial NCLB chicken (pardon the food reference). For more information, and NSBA's method, see the recent Congressional testimony of NSBA's top lobbyist Michael Resnick here regarding NCLB reauthorization.
But, even so, BoardBuzz wouldn't dare dismiss Kozol’s oh-so-brave efforts. He has, after all, lost an impressive 29 pounds on his quest. Talk about savage, er, fierce, willpower. We're impressed. So much so that BoardBuzz expects a new book this year from Mr. Kozol: Yes, You Can: Slimming Secrets in Fighting for a Cause.
Posted September 19, 2007 3:42 PM | No Child Left Behind
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