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Blog Posts
Bridging the achievement gap
...the HTML below to embed this audio onto your web page. Audio player code: As education secretary, Rod Paige promoted No Child Left Behind as the best way to reduce the achievement gap between black and white students. In his new book, Paige argues the persistent...
Feb. 08 6:01 pm
Full Story at MPR | Minnesota Public Radio
Whither Professional Development in the Budget?
...place that the professional- development that districts were providing with federal funds was any good. The definition in the NCLB law specifies that the funds can't be used for one-day workshops, but it's hard to know how many of the nation's 14,000 school...
Feb. 08 4:43 pm
The Spider and the Fly? Obama Extends Yet Another Olive Branch to Republicans
...Bush celebrated exactly two victories from Congress that were not related to the panic induced response to 9/11. One was No Child Left Behind, which had no institutional lobby opposition. The other were his tax cuts, which had no institutional lobby opposition. Just...
Feb. 08 4:40 pm
Full Story at Crooks and Liars
Hip-Hop for Educational Change: We Are the Ones We?ve Been Waiting For
...He returns next week.] The current public school system in America is in a state of emergency. Federal programs like No Child Left Behind, aimed at improving schools through standards-based reform, have caused many schools to focus on teaching the limited...
Feb. 08 4:32 pm
The president and Congress can do whatever they darned well please and ain't no oath gonna stop 'em
...regulates safety on our highways through conditions imposed on the receipt of highway trust funds. President Bush's No Child Left Behind law does the same thing for educational standards. Mr. Mitchell cannot cite a single Supreme Court decision holding that...
Feb. 08 4:10 pm
Full Story at Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com
No Cliche Left Behind
...the contributing ?reformers? have been intellectually ?coming from? lately. Mike Johnston, a member of the Commission on No Child Left Behind, who is also a Colorado state senator and former principal, bunted some softball pitches lobbed at him late last year...
Feb. 08 3:48 pm
Early Learning in ESEA, Part 1: Generating Ideas
...year for the long overdue reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the law known for many years as No Child Left Behind? Speculation over that possibility has been swirling for months in education policy circles, and those who focus on...
Feb. 08 3:23 pm
Full Story at New America Blogs
Five at 8 - 2/8/10: A kid on the streets
...the lead. Midmorning discusses the race to develop green technology. Second hour: As education secretary, Rod Paige promoted No Child Left Behind as the best way to reduce the achievement gap between black and white students. In his new book, Paige argues...
Feb. 08 2:36 pm
Full Story at MPR | Minnesota Public Radio
Educators await details on No Child Left Behind changes
...helps districts assess and improve students of all learning levels, said Nelson McCray, superintendent of the ESC. Although No Child Left Behind has been positive in many ways, McCray said it also can "breed mediocrity" by holding districts to a specific level...
Feb. 08 12:27 am
Full Story at The Newark Advocate
Teach for America makes mark in Hawaii
...yearly progress, not just adequate progress here," he said, referring to the annual progress mandated under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. "And quality teachers are the way to go." Baldemor said that 100 percent of principals surveyed at schools with...
Feb. 08 12:07 am
Full Story at The Honolulu Advertiser