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The Filter: Obama Tackles 'No Child Left Behind'
...the law's requirement that every American child reach proficiency in reading and math, which administration officials have called utopian." Obama's education officials believe that No Child Left Behind encouraged teachers to dumb down their standards. ...
Mar. 15 4:19 pm
No Child Left Behind overhaul: five key things that would change
...of a reauthorization process for the education law. Although the administration?s proposals would change many things about No Child Left Behind, one central component would remain: annual tests in reading and math for students. On the other hand, one component...
Mar. 15 4:14 pm
Ex-lawmaker: Increase taxes
...I think for a long time the schools were not as accountable as they needed to be. But I happen to be somebody that thinks No Child Left Behind was a good thing. When that happened the testing programs that have taken place have been able to show what it is...
Mar. 15 4:12 pm
Reason Morning Links: Public Textbooks and Private Spacecraft
...Next thing you know they might start teaching children that communism actually killed some people. A whole generation of children will now know that the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss were guilty. The humanity. reply to this 1. The people he thought were Communist...
Mar. 15 4:08 pm
Notre Dame commencement to honor poet
...an honorary degree. Andy Gammill looks at the happenings of Indianapolis' schools. Check how your school did on the ISTEP, No Child Left Behind and other measures. Get breaking local news as it happens. Enter your phone number below: Standard Messaging Rates...
Mar. 15 4:01 pm
Full Story at Indianapolis Star
ESEA Plan: Flexibility, Resources, Accountability
...Obama administration's blueprint to overhaul the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) will support state and local efforts to help ensure that all students graduate prepared for college and a career. Following the lead of the nation's governors and state education...
Mar. 15 4:01 pm
Full Story at U.S. Department of Education
Obama Unwelcome on Campaign Trail
...already-scorched Dems. And while he does this, he?s also planning to send to the Hill a new bill to ?fix? George Bush?s ?No Child Left Behind? program to make it sufficiently ductile that the teachers? unions will be able to get back to the good old days...
Mar. 15 4:00 pm
Full Story at Human Events Online
The Decline of a Once-Great City: Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey, Ep. 1
...performing salesperson instead of boosting the performance of your best? Fixing Cleveland is as ridiculous as suggesting "no child left behind" would boost our global education reputation. Look at great cities like Austin, Denver, Portland, Omaha, etc - let's...
Mar. 15 3:55 pm
Back To School
...included?"were certain that most families wanted only the chance to escape their neighborhood school, the first five years of NCLB demonstrated the opposite," she writes. In California, for example, less than 1 percent of students in failing schools actually...
Mar. 15 3:55 pm
Full Story at Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish
Tabby Biddle: The Biggest Killer of Loving to Learn: School
...calls for more vigorous intervention in "failing" schools, it is still holding onto some key features of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind Law, including the focus on test scores. So I wonder, what is the function of school today? Once upon a time I thought...
Mar. 15 3:49 pm