For the anti-NCLB folks, here is an interesting analogy. Compliments of Sue.
No Dentist Left Behind
Important note: In AYP the expectation is lower in areas with poor dental hygiene. At least to start out with... Thoughts?
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Actually, the thought has occurred to me that the medical profession is very resistant to the kind of evaluation system NCLB proposes for schools. That they aren't criticized for it, I think, says a lot about the different ways we view teachers and doctors. It's interesting to me that this dialogue involves a dentist.
I see the piece was written by a school guy. I suppose the way the dentist's attempt to discuss underlying tooth care policy was dismissed as a search for excuses was meant to be ironic. That's something that I find frustrating too, Way too often discussion of underlying policy concerns with respect to difficult problems is characterized as nothing more than a search for excuses. Dental care is lot more than what happens in dentist's just as education involves a lot more than what happens in schools. But the burden of what happens elsewhere, good or bad, falls on dentists and teachers.
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