{"id":1468,"date":"2008-11-15T15:23:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T19:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2008-11-15T15:23:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T19:23:26","slug":"nclb-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1468","title":{"rendered":"NCLB music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Wraga, at work a mild-mannered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coe.uga.edu\/leap\/faculty\/wraga\/index.html\">U. of Georgia faculty member<\/a>, has recently uploaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/billwraga\">the latest NCLB\/ed reform song<\/a> I&#8217;ve come across. Some others:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Department of Education&#8217;s NCLB song (<a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9F04E0D9113FF930A15755C0A9649C8B63&amp;sec=&amp;spon=&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">NY Times article with partial lyrics<\/a>; anyone know of a location for the full lyrics or an mp3?)<\/li>\n<li>Tom Paxton, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachertube.com\/view_video.php?viewkey=c32cdc8da76f30827420\">Not on the Test<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cdbaby.com\/cd\/dhbdrake4\">No Child Left Behind?<\/a> (album)<\/li>\n<li>Madelein Begun Kane&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/education_president_song.html\">Education President Song<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is certainly not the first time that education issues have been set to song. Doggerel is a longstanding tradition among students around the world, and sometimes it&#8217;s a ritual. (One of the traditions at Bryn Mawr College is the three evenings in the year when most of the undergraduates gather and sing a bunch of songs about campus life, with lyrics in both English and Greek.) Tom Paxton is a wonderful songwriter, but his song is not his best. I&#8217;m hoping to find a set of lyrics for ed reform that has a bit of whimsy, is set to &#8220;I&#8217;ll Fly Away,&#8221; or is written by students. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Wraga, at work a mild-mannered U. of Georgia faculty member, has recently uploaded the latest NCLB\/ed reform song I&#8217;ve come across. Some others: The Department of Education&#8217;s NCLB song (NY Times article with partial lyrics; anyone know of a location for the full lyrics or an mp3?) Tom Paxton, Not on the Test No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability-frankenstein","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-nG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}