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Blog Posts
Teachers face consequences, support reform at failing schools
...collaborate, experts say. Minnesota expects to remake 34 schools by the time students return next fall ? more than the federal No Child Left Behind legislation did in the state since it was enacted in 2001. Philadelphia plans on transforming dozens in the...
Feb. 24 6:29 pm
Teachers face consequences, support reform at failing schools
...collaborate, experts say. Minnesota expects to remake 34 schools by the time students return next fall ? more than the federal No Child Left Behind legislation did in the state since it was enacted in 2001. Philadelphia plans on transforming dozens in the...
Feb. 24 6:29 pm
Don?t Count Obama Out
...not have to be the case. President Bush was able to promote substantial legislative achievements (the 2001 tax cuts, No Child Left Behind, Trade Promotion Authority, Medicare Part D, Energy, Pension Reform, the 2008 Stimulus, and TARP) on a bipartisan basis....
Feb. 24 6:04 pm
Don't cut arts
...growth in thriving programs. The U.S. Department of Education established music and the arts as a ?core academic subject? in No Child Left Behind. Budget concerns are important and must be carefully considered. I suggest a reconsideration to find other avenues...
Feb. 24 5:53 pm
State awards $5.2 million in education technology grants
...school districts and other educational agencies. The funding is from two federal sources, including $1.75 million under the No Child Left Behind act and the remaining $3.45 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as stimulus money. "As...
Feb. 24 3:49 pm
Spring break cut short
...must meet steadily increasing scoring targets to maintain Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP, on the MSAs. Under the No Child Left Behind Act, schools and school systems strive to make AYP to reach the overall goal of 100 percent of all students scoring at proficient...
Feb. 24 3:49 pm
Trenton Central High School teachers protest change in grading policy
...quizzes right there so the parents can see where their child is struggling in real-time and can be involved in the solution? No child left behind was a great concept but these school administrators are a bunch of idiots that cannot implement it properly, and...
Feb. 24 2:42 pm
A Call Goes Out: Save Federal Aid for Reading Is Fundamental
...President Obama is seeking would require amending the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, known in its latest iteration as No Child Left Behind. The House this week was beginning a series of hearings on the reauthorization of the ESEA, though it remains...
Feb. 24 1:56 pm
Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday
...tale of Jim Guckert." But c'mon, editors, let's bump this story up next week to a space larger than a matchbox. JEERS to No Child Left Behind. A bipartisan panel studied Bush's unfunded mandate and has deemed it "a convoluted and unconstitutional education...
Feb. 24 1:56 pm
Editorial: No retreat on standards or resources
...opposite - and between 2005 and 2007, under No Child Left Behind, 11 states actually lowered their standards in math." No Child Left Behind required states to set standards for academic performance and test students to see how they measure up to those expectations....
Feb. 24 1:16 pm
Full Story at The Daily News Tribune | Waltham, MA