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Original Technorati articles tagged “no child left behind”

• in Politics
  No Child Left Behind Waived For 10 States
  President Obama is freeing 10 states from the requirements of "No Child Left Behind".
  by aweinclusive / on Feb 9, 2012
• in Technorati Women
  Homework Wars: Why Limiting Homework is Not the Solution
  Coming together to improve our schools
  by alicarnold / on Jun 18, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  Test Prep Madness
  What does it mean when a mother sues her daughter's school because the school didn't sufficiently prepare her for admissions tests?
  by nycdlq / on Mar 18, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “no child left behind”

 

• Why Support for (Any Old) Immigration Reform Won’t Solve the GOP’s Problem with Latino Voters

  
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  Immigration reform is up for debate in the Senate! Everyone knows the story by now: 1) with an eye to their electoral future, Senate Republicans are newly interested in reaching out to Latino voters, 2) they’re nervous about upsetting their anti-immigrant base, 3) House Republicans are generally more interested in ...
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• An Education Declaration to Rebuild America

  
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  We believe good schools are essential to democracy and prosperity—and that it is our collective responsibility to educate all children, not just a fortunate few. To rebuild America, we need a vision for 21st-century education based on seven principles. Related Entries June 11, 2013 U.S. Open June 7, 2013 ...
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• Cars & consortiums: long-term & short-term moves to boost school attendance

  
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  June 13, 2013: The Los Angeles Unified School District is handing out two new cars (Chevy Sonics for seniors) and five iPads to elementary students -- rewards for 12-13 perfect attendance. (There were 357 seniors who didnt miss a day at school; the two winners were selected via a drawing.) At left, a Chevy Sonic; the ...
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• Senate GOP: Education Secretary Has ‘States Over A Barrel’ On Sweeping Rewrite Of No Child Left Behind

  
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  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Education Committee on Wednesday finished its sweeping rewrite of No Child Left Behind that eases coast-to-coast requirements for schools and gives states greater independence to set their own goals. On a party-line vote, the Democratic-led panel sent to the full Senate a bill that ...
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• Dueling Children Left Behind? Major Parties Offer Different ESEA Reauthorization Bills

  
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  English: President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The Elementary and Secondary Education Act , better known as The Artist formerly known as No Child Left Behind, is ...
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• State achievement gap grows

  
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  “There has been surprising progress in educating disadvantaged students” since No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) passed in 2002, but some states are doing much better than others, according to  The New State Achievement Gap: How Waivers Could Make It Worse – Or Better , a new Education Sector report. The ...
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• Senate Education Committee Considers NCLB Bill

  
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  Everyone knows that the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is ultimately headed absolutely nowhere this year, thanks to partisan divisions. Still, the Senate education committee marked up its version of the bill today. The debate over the legislation says a lot about how Democrats and ...
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• GOP Accuses Dems Of Pushing ‘National School Board’ To Replace No Child Left Behind

  
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  WASHINGTON (AP) — The good intentions of No Child Left Behind have not yielded good policy, the Democratic chairman of the Senate education panel said Tuesday as lawmakers began to rewrite the sweeping legislation that governs all schools that receive federal tax dollars. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, opened hearings ...
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• Afternoon Announcements: Side-by-Side Comparison of Three NCLB Bills

  
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  US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan unveiled some of the key components of the President’s competitive grant program for high schools. The administration proposed a $300 million high school redesign initiative earlier this year. The goal is for schools to move away from the traditional idea of “seat time” and ...
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• Lawmakers Push for More NCLB Waiver Oversight

  
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  Two lawmakers want Congress to turn up the heat on U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and his department over implementation of waivers under the No Child Left Behind Act. In a June 6 letter to Rep. John Kline , the chairman of the House education committee, Reps. Carolyn McCarthy , D-N.Y., and Duncan Hunter, ...
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• No Child Left Behind: Alexander Unveils Rewrite

  
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  James Berglie/ZUMA Press/Newscom Senator Lamar Alexander (R–TN), ranking member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, has just introduced a proposal to “fix” No Child Left Behind (NCLB). While restoring excellence in education will require more than a fix to the bureaucratic law—states ...
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• School Tracking versus Dynamic Grouping

  
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  San Francisco   In any discussion of inequality over the last 30 years, “tracking” in public schools, where children are sorted out by initial abilities often determining expectations and future progress, has always been on the short list in any discussion.   More recently with the furor over reform, the ...
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• 4 Points on Sen. Lamar Alexander’s NCLB Reauthorization Bill

  
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  Sigh. It’s now considered “federal overreach” to insist that states set performance goals for their students and schools. If you thought we settled this argument back in 1994, you would be wrong. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., the ranking Republican on the Senate HELP Committee, backed out of bipartisan talks ...
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• War on Teachers and Education, part 1: Prof. Ravitch’s emotion-touching call for a cease-fire on teachers

  
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  This is the first of five parts needed to document and lay the background for what unfortunately promises to be a pitched public relations battle, if not a serious battle to rescue a California school from being crushed by a corporation making a hostile takeover of a school using California’s “ parent trigger ” ...
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• Grouping Students by Ability Regains Favor With Educators

  
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  Proponents of grouping students, which was criticized in the 1980s as promoting inequality, say that done properly it helps them cope with students of widely varying skill levels.        
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• Common Core Discussion in the New York Times

  
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  Here are two utterly compelling and important opinion pieces from the NY Times (thanks to Seattle Citizen for pointing them out). This is important stuff. The first is by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus called Whos Minding the Schools .   Both are professors and are co-writing a book about math. The second ...
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• ConnectED: Obama says hi-speed broadband to 99% of US students by 2018

  
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  June 7, 2013: Citing that "fewer than 20%" of Americas teachers "have Internet connections to meet their teaching needs," President Obama (at left, in a Mooresville, North Carolina school) yesterday unveiled a "bold, new initiative called ConnectED." ( Mooresville, one of the lowest-funded districts in North Carolina, ...
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• Accountability light and lighter

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 558
  Sen. Tom Harkin and the Democrats have proposed a new version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (aka No Child Left Behind). So have Sen. Lamar Alexander the the Republicans. Both “move away from the strong federal accountability system at the center of the much-maligned NCLB law, but to different ...
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• House Republican Introduces Education Bill

  
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  The legislation, which eliminates 70 programs, is intended to reduce “the federal footprint,” said its sponsor, Representative John Kline.        
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• Kline and House Republicans Release NCLB Renewal Bill

  
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  And now there are three bills to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, a.k.a. No Child Left Behind. Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., the chairman of the House education committee, dropped his ESEA renewal measure today, just days after the Senate Democrats, and hours after the Senate Republicans. If you ...
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