No Child Left Behind

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• Julia Bernath: What do school boards do?

  
  NSBA BoardBuzz — Authority: 468
  What do school boards do? According to Julia Bernath, board vice president of Fulton County Schools, GA, and President of the Georgia School Boards Association, they set the vision for a school district. Hear Julia’s thoughts on governance and how NCLB has impacted student achievement in her district in this video ...
  3 days ago

• Dude and Dude: Dumbing and Dumber

  
  O'Ceallaigh & The Quill — Authority: 126
  “Hey, dude!” “Who you calling a scarecrow , dude?” “You’d rather I called you a stuffed shirt ?” “ Sure , dude. That way, when I’m feeling insufficiently padded, I can fix it by knocking the stuffing out of you .” “ Hey!! “ “No, dude, that belly’s foam padding. Lot better than ...
  6 days ago

• Online education makes house calls to Clark County students

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  Eleven-year-old Alicia Ross practices gymnastics about 25 hours a week, but she doesn’t need to do back flips to get to school on time. For her, the classroom is as close as her home computer. Ross, a sixth-grader, is enrolled at Nevada Connections Academy, an online charter school.She and numerous other ...
  1 week ago

• Weekend Links

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  The Democrats’ ingenious plan to disguise the true cost of their health care bills. The health care legislation moving through Congress could increase young adults’ premiums by 100 percent. Why raising taxes won’t fix the deficit . Just look at California. And Rhode Island. And New York. “What ...
  1 week ago

• The Cost of Commitment

  
  AMPS — Authority: 419
  President Obama gave a speech at Wright Middle School in Madison today ( text here ) outlining his education reform initiative for the nation’s schools, called “Race to the Top,” sometimes referred to by some of his critics as the “Race off the Cliff.” As Thomas Mertz has pointed out earlier , the amount ...
  1 week ago

• Another Part Of The Reagan Revolution

  
  Blackinformant.com - African-American culture, news commentary, politics — Authority: 602
  About the author of this following excerpt~ “Charlotte Iserbyt is the consummate whistleblower! Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major ...
  1 week ago

• Way To Go (Almost All the Way), Jay!

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  This morning Washington Post education columnist — and terrific Cato forum panelist – Jay Mathews called for abolition of the office of the U.S. Secretary of Education ! Why? Because it has proven itself worthless, that’s why: The president, I suspect, thought that Duncan, the former chief of the Chicago ...
  1 week ago

• Tech school plan attacks math and reading deficiencies

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 603
  An intensive reading initiative and an inclusive mathematics program will help improve student achievement at Bucks County Technical High School, the school principal said. The comprehensive tech school landed in School Improvement I status after not enough juniors scored at or above their grade level on the ...
  1 week ago

• Theobald on Returning Rural Values to Education

  
  Homeschooling Research Notes — Authority: 109
  This post reviews Paul Theobald, Education Now: How Rethinking America’s Past Can Change Its Future (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2009).  [An article that summarizes many of the points made in the book is available here ] Theobald, Woods-Beals Chair of Urban and Rural Education at Buffalo State College ...
  1 week ago

• Lying to Our Children

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 730
  Education Secretary Arne Duncan feels that “we’re lying to our children” when we accept low student achievement standards, a policy that sees many states promoting children to the next grade despite being inept at reading and math. Also, Santa isn’t real. —JCL The Associated Press: Many states set ...
  2 weeks ago

• Are No Child Left Behind standards fair? Author says many states are setting bar too low

  
  Detroit Business News — Authority: 825
  NCLB allows states get to set their goals.
  2 weeks ago

• Trip’s afternoon reading

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 597
  An early, controlled release of state prisoners has been mentioned as a consequence of deep spending cuts ordered by the New Mexico Legislature to the state’s $5 billion budget. Whether that actually occurs is unclear. My bet is that it won’t for several reasons. But one state, Illinois, appears ready to carry ...
  2 weeks ago

• Differences in state standards

  
  NSBA BoardBuzz — Authority: 468
  BoardBuzz just checked out this post over at The Edifier about a report that was just released by the Department of Education that compared each state’s standard for proficiency on their state assessments. The report shows that what each state considers proficient varies from state to state. BoardBuzz ...
  2 weeks ago

• States Each Have Their Own Way of Standardizing Tests

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  The Wall Street Journal’s John Hechinger reports out a Dept. of Education study that shows wild disparity in the level of difficulty between states when it comes to there 4th and 8th grade math and reading standardized tests. Hechinger focuses on states that made these tests even easier between 2005 (the last ...
  2 weeks ago

• Federal Researchers Find Lower Standards in Schools

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  A study shows that nearly a third of the states lowered their academic standards to avoid the penalties under the No Child Left Behind law.
  2 weeks ago

• Where basic is ‘proficient’

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 612
  To meet No Child Left Behind’s call for universal proficiency by 2014, some states have lowered standards, concludes a new report by the National Council for Education Statistics. In fourth-grade reading, 31 states consider students proficient who’d score below basic on the National Assessment of Education ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reform Is In The Air

  
  AMPS — Authority: 419
  Mike Rose at Truthdig has noted that following the extensive and unprecedented federal reach of No Child Left Behind, the Obama administration is attempting to extend this iniative further by putting some some serious money behind a number of education initiatives that invite states and districts to compete for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another Education Road Sign Screaming “Stop!”

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  This morning the National Center for Education Statistics released a new report, Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto NAEP Scores: 2005-2007 .  What the results make clear (for about the billionth time) is that government control of education has put us on a road straight to failure. Still, many of those ...
  2 weeks ago

• Florida has tougher test standards than many other states (but not so tough by NAEP yardstick)

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 440
  Florida has stricter standards than many other states when it comes to standardized reading and math exams, though it is not the most demanding -- and perhaps not demanding enough, according to a new federal study. The study by the...
  2 weeks ago

• State Math, Reading Tests in Race to the Bottom

  
  Newsweek Blogs — Authority: 730
  Education reformers were disappointed two weeks ago to learn that fourth graders’ math scores failed to show any improvement this year. But a new report being released today by the National Center for Education Statistics reveals an equally disappointing improvement: states are getting much better at watering ...
  2 weeks ago

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