{"id":813,"date":"2006-12-18T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T20:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=813"},"modified":"2006-12-18T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-18T20:30:12","slug":"so-theres-debate-among-nclb-critics-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"So there&#8217;s debate among NCLB critics?  Big deal&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reaction of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eiaonline.com\/communique.htm\">Mike Antonucci<\/a> to news that <a href=\"http:\/\/susanohanian.org\/show_nclb_outrages.html?id=2499\">Susan Ohanian calls the NEA&#8217;s leadership distancing themselves<\/a> from the &#8220;dismantle NCLB&#8221; petition &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/susanohanian.org\/show_nclb_outrages.html?id=2495\">bullying<\/a>&#8220;? &#8220;[F]un watching NEA and Ohanian thrash it out for themselves.&#8221; (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eduwonk.com\/archives\/2006_12_17_archive.html#116647335145742191\">Eduwonk<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p>Maybe Antonucci is unfamiliar with&nbsp;something called deliberative decisionmaking, which involves discussion, decisions, and acknowledgment of dissent, but the NEA has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/000567.html\">had that<\/a>&nbsp;on NCLB, in its last annual meeting. The NEA is acting consistent with the decision of its 9,000-plus delegates.&nbsp; Ohanian doesn&#8217;t have to like it (she obviously doesn&#8217;t), but I don&#8217;t think that disagreements are a problem in public debate.&nbsp; We call that democracy in this part of the world. <\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/000738.html\">already commented<\/a> on the petition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reaction of Mike Antonucci to news that Susan Ohanian calls the NEA&#8217;s leadership distancing themselves from the &#8220;dismantle NCLB&#8221; petition &#8220;bullying&#8220;? &#8220;[F]un watching NEA and Ohanian thrash it out for themselves.&#8221; (Hat tip: Eduwonk.) Maybe Antonucci is unfamiliar with&nbsp;something called deliberative decisionmaking, which involves discussion, decisions, and acknowledgment of dissent, but the NEA has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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-813","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-d7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","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=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}