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• SOTU 2012: Lets Not Make To Much Of This

  
  This Week In Education — Authority: 542
  What to make of the education elements of the Presidents speech last night?  Not that much, to be honest.  For all the media attention the event generates its just a speech -- one given during an election year; a week, a month, a year from now, the real-world impact of Obamas remarks will be minimal.  (Obama can ...
  1 week ago

• This Is My Last Straw - Is It Yours Too?

  
  The Frustrated Teacher — Authority: 111
  As a teacher, I have sat and watched our children increasingly suffer needlessly as the life of the of the school day has been systematically suffocated to the pallor of a deathly grey. The gauntlet of NCLB has morphed into the scourge of the corporate take-over model which spawned a full on attack warrior in the form ...
  1 week ago

• No Child Left Behind

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 568
  The “No Child Left Behind” was signed into law by George W. Bush on Jan. 8, 2002. It was a shift into accountability for schools. The plan seemed to be a perfect plan for school children who were held back because of low test scores. There would be rules to follow and no excuses for failure. Some were fearful of ...
  1 week ago

• Race to the Top - Its Not Just for States Anymore

  
  Seattle Public Schools community blog — Authority: 120
  Secretary of Education Arne Duncan just came out with a new idea for RTTT:  allowing districts to compete as stand-alones (as opposed to just entire states competing).   This is interesting because the most recent news on RTTT is that Hawaii was placed on a "high-risk" grant status and may have its award taken ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gutting the Arts: Here’s How NCLB Undermines Schools and How a Vigilant and Caring Community Fought to Save a Beloved Program

  
  K12NewsNetwork.com — Authority: 123
  This story is more personal than I’d like. My 17-year old daughter has one semester left before graduation. One of her anchors in high school has been participation in the school’s dance program. That program has been a grounding influence for her. It gave her a creative outlet after she had to quit competitive ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bush on NCLB- Ten Years Later

  
  Teaching Underground — Authority: 103
  Time Magazine, January 23, 2011.  Andrew J. Rotherham gives us George W. Bush in his own words on the tenth anniversary of "No Child Left Behind." Bush : "So Im pleased with the progress and concerned about efforts from people in both parties to weaken it." Rotherham : " What do you think is driving those ...
  2 weeks ago

• Standardized Testing in the Homeschool

  
  Heartfelt Homeschooling — Authority: 409
  I just ordered our standardized tests for the year.  It’s bitter-sweet.  I’m glad to be in compliance and will happilymeet the requirements that give me the freedom to homeschool, but, personally,I’m against standardized testing.First, as a homeschooling parent, my children will come awaywith a broad knowledge ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is a Great Teacher Worth $100,000?

  
  Education Blog — Authority: 117
  A new study argues that we should pay great teachers $100,000 to stay in schools, and pay a similar amount to poor teachers to retire.
  2 weeks ago

• ESEA Bills Are Full Retreat From Accountability for Special Education

  
  On Special Education — Authority: 509
  The new House Republican bills that tackle reforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (otherwise known as No Child Left Behind) "represent a full retreat from accountability for students with disabilities and other disadvantaged children," the National Center for Learning Disabilities said this week. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gates Right For Once? Of Course Not!

  
  Modern School — Authority: 117
  A new study released last week by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation found that rating teachers by watching them teach is possibly the best way to help them improve, the Los Angeles Times reported this week. It also found that observing teachers infrequently (once a year or less) is insufficient, and that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quick Hits (1.12.12)

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 563
  Chinese infiltration. China sends more students to U.S. universities than any other country, and U.S. colleges are more than happy to have them because they usually come self-funded. Don’t want to read the story? This fun Taiwanese animation basically sums it up. (MSNBC) ‘When in doubt, dance it out.’ ...
  2 weeks ago

• Promises Unfulfilled? What Next, Federal Education Failure?

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 748
  By Neal McCluskey On Sunday, we marked the tenth birthday of the No Child Left Behind Act by reviewing its decade of futility, and explaining why federal education adventuring is basically doomed to failure. (Enjoy some of our extensive coverage here , here , and here .)  This week we got yet more evidence ...
  2 weeks ago

• “Let’s Not Weaken It”: An Exclusive Interview with George W. Bush on NCLB

  
  TIME.com — Authority: 647
  No Child Left Behind turned 10 this week, and former President George W. Bush, who led the effort to enact the landmark federal education law, marked the anniversary with an exclusive interview with TIME education columnist Andrew J. Rotherham. Bush discussed the law and its legacy, criticized both parties for trying ...
  2 weeks ago

• ESEA Reauthorization Update: Good, Bad, and Bizarre

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 563
  On Friday, Rep. John Kline (R-MN), Chairman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, released the final two pieces of House Republicans’ piecemeal strategy to overhaul No Child Left Behind, and reactions to the bills are trickling in. The Committee had already approved legislation relating to school ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bruno: Include Science Testing In The NCLB Rewrite

  
  This Week In Education — Authority: 542
  This is a guest commentary from middle school science teacher Paul Bruno, who tweets at @MrPABruno: Its easy for wishes to get out of hand, so as NCLB reauthorization makes its way ever so gradually through the halls of government in Washington Ive been keeping my hopes modest.   Given that  President Barack ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ten Years of No Child Left Behind

  
  Choosing Democracy — Authority: 110
  Linda Darling-Hammond After 10 years ofmissed opportunity under No Child Left Behind, we must learn from ourexperience to accelerate academic progress and improve the quality of learningin American schools. Lesson #1: Don’toverreach. The federal role should not be to micromanageeducational decisions, but ...
  3 weeks ago

• Guest Post: NCLBs Faith-Based Reforms, a Post Mortem

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 116
  By John Thompson No Child Left Behind, like the War in Iraq and "Voo Doo" economics is a part of the American tradition of "the Power of Positive Thinking." If teachers really believed that "every child can learn," said the laws authors, revitalized schools would undo the legacies of Jim Crow and poverty. It is thus ...
  3 weeks ago

• Thompson: Building On Disaggregation

  
  This Week In Education — Authority: 542
  NCLB supporters have been celebrating the laws tenth anniversary by savaging the educators who had the temerity to challenge the self-evident righteousness of data-driven accountability.  Opponents have been citing NCLBs failure to improve student performance, while recounting the damage it did to the children ...
  3 weeks ago

• Happy Birthday, Nicklebee!

  
  Eduflack — Authority: 101
  Yes, we are now smack in the middle of celebrating the 10th anniversary of our beloved No Child Left Behind.  As we should expect from something that has been on the "out" list the past three or five seasons, many of the birthday wishes are focusing on the failures or shortfalls of the law.  Yes, shocker! So over ...
  3 weeks ago

• Three New Year’s “Edu-lutions” for Policymakers

  
  The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation — Authority: 760
  Like the rest of us, state and local policymakers across the country probably made New Year’s resolutions to eat healthier, exercise more, and finish those languishing projects around the house. Here’s hoping they’ll also add three education resolutions to their list. The year 2012 will be pivotal for education ...
  3 weeks ago

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