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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”

 

• Education Dept. Gives 3 More States Waivers On No Child Left Behind

  
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  WASHINGTON (AP) — Three more states have received permission to ignore parts of the federal No Child Left Behind education law. The Education Department on Monday said Alaska, Hawaii and West Virginia schools qualified for exemptions. The decision now has given 37 states and the District of Columbia the OK to come ...
  5 days ago

• Alaska, Hawaii, West Virginia Win NCLB Waivers

  
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  U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has now awarded No Child Left Behind Act waivers to 37 states plus the District of Columbia . Alaska, Hawaii, and West Virginia are the latest additions to the list, the Education Department announced today. This means that the vast majority of the country is now operating ...
  5 days ago

• Short-Sighted: NCLB Taking Students In Wrong Direction By Cutting Recess, PE

  
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  Brynn Ford walks on the treadmill while listening to a class lesson at her West St. Paul, Minn., school. (Photo/Trisha Marczak) Fourth-grade student Kevin Killion listens attentively to his daily class lesson, all the while walking at a moderate pace on a classroom treadmill. “It gets oxygen in your brain,” ...
  5 days ago

• So… We Are Rating the University of Delaware By Common Core

  
  kavips — Authority: 485
  The educational department of the University of Delaware is ranked 35th in the nation… That is at least out of 5000 accredited teaching schools… Not only that, they are 35th in the top ranked educational teacher training country in the entire world… Apparently there is no educational crises in America when it ...
  6 days ago

• Exposing Common Core To The Public

  
  kavips — Authority: 485
  This is a homework assignment given to one Delawarean student. I published this before , but since many are now tuning in for the first time, here it is again…. The original story began with how a student was upset they would not be covering Shakespeare this year. When a parent asked at open house, the answer was: ...
  6 days ago

• TED Talk: Escaping Education’s Death Valley

  
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  Fueled largely by his legendary 2006 TED talk asserting that schools kill creativity, Sir Ken Robinson is the most-viewed speaker of all time on TED.com .  Over the years, his message has evolved slightly, but he continues to remind all of us that teaching is creative work, that the standardization of education is ...
  1 week ago

• Devine Carama – “Light Switch Flow” | New Music

  
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  After bringing us the impressive “Voices from the Grave“, Lexington, KY hailing rising Hip Hop lyricist Devine Carama today brings us “Light Switch Flow” another solid offering from his forthcoming free LP, No Child Left Behind. Over the soundscape produced by Miami-born beatmaker Fidel Hasflow, the rapper ...
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• Number Of North Dakota Schools Making Adequate Yearly Progress Continues To Decline

  
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  The North Dakota Department of Public Instruction sent out a press release this morning about the performance of state schools as defined by Adequate Year Progress. According to the numbers provided by DPI, the number of schools meeting AYP standards has declined yet again. Here’s a chart showing the number of ...
  1 week ago

• "You can leave your hat on" ... LAUSD ends "willful defiance" suspensions

  
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  UPDATE, May 17, 2013: The Los Angeles Unified School District board voted on Tuesday, May 14, to end suspensions for "willful defiance" (see history below). According to CBS News, the policy, which was affecting black and Hispanic students in disproportionate numbers, allowed staff to suspend "disruptive" students for ...
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• Rebuttal To News Journal Piece Promoting Charters

  
  kavips — Authority: 485
  Kendall Massett wrote a piece in todays News Journal. “It’s time to change the conversation on charter schools.” The point behind the article was that charter schools do some great things too. It reminded me of a middle aged executive who fell in love with his secretary, and had carried on an affair over ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reforming the Republic IV: Educate; Do Not Enstupidate[*]

  
  RedState — Authority: 761
  To make American Secondary Schools worth a monkey’s butt-wipe again, we are just going to have to leave some children behind. Right now, they are yet another precursor of the impending Big Government Chernobyl that could very well destroy American Society as we now enjoy living in it. Implementing a new Common ...
  2 weeks ago

• Turning Our Children Into Robots And Guinea Pigs

  
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  I’ve been getting progressively more alarmed at all of the shameful stories coming out lately on the spread of high-stakes testing into so much of our public school system.  The  simplistic argument underlying it smells exactly like most of the other simplistic bullshit Republicans incessantly excrete*: The ...
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• CORE Districts to Make Big Changes to Try to Win NCLB Waiver

  
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  The nine California districts seeking their own version of a No Child Left Behind Act waiver plan to make significant changes to their request to increase their odds of winning this flexibility. Armed with feedback from the U.S. Department of Educations outside peer reviewers , the districts say they will no ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Tale of Two Schools: A Boy Learns to Love Reading

  
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  My son and media specialist Ms. Reeding (yes that is her real name) Becoming a mom, I was excited when each of my children entered school. If I loved learning and school, they would too, right? In Kindergarten and first grade my son had fantastic teachers. They both told us what a good student he was, he was ...
  3 weeks ago

• Exit strategy for students at closing schools hard to navigate

  
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  Edna Wilson and her granddaughter Gianee, a P.S. 64 student, protested the school’s poor quality before its closure hearing in February. Wilson is among those who were disappointed with the transfer options the city presented to students in schools that it is is phasing out. (Luke Hammill) An escape route from the ...
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• How Will Indianas Common Core Pause Affect Its NCLB Waiver?

  
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  To get a waiver under the No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana attested that it had adopted the Common Core State Standards and joined a consortium developing common tests. Now, both are in doubt. The state legislature approved and sent to the governor a bill to "pause" common core implementation , which had started ...
  3 weeks ago

• Common Core Kept in Place

  
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  House Bill 1427 preserves the state’s Common Core academic standards and allows for continued implementation. The Indiana General Assembly rejected the attacks on Common Core and allowed the standards, which the State Board of Education adopted in August 2010, to continue to be implemented. (Only the elements of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rick Santorums Lame Attack on Rand Paul

  
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  Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is a hot commodity right now in the conservative movement. With his focus on free markets, constitutional foreign policy, and the protection of civil liberty, Paul stands out among potential 2016 Republican presidential contenders. He certainly has a long path to take to the nomination, but the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Devine Carama – f/ Deacon The Villian – “Voices From The Grave” | New Music

  
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  Having already inspired listeners via the beautiful “Stars”, Devine Carama returns with something a tad more personal titled “Voices From The Grave”. Touching upon the recent rise in violence displayed all over the United States, Carama’s lyrical content references to the Boston bombings, the Aurora, ...
  4 weeks ago

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