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Blog Posts
Reading scores hold steady in nationwide student tests
Reading scores for fourth- and eighth-grade students held mostly steady last year, continuing a stubborn trend of minimal improvement across most racial, economic and geographic groups. Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a
Mar. 25 4:32 pm
Full Story at TheNewsTribune.com
Storm cleanup ... NCLB changes -- Topics of the Day
We're working on these editorials for tomorrow. Please offer your thoughts as we write our own: 1. STORMS -- A delay of a month after the snow storm to pick up bulk trash might have made some sense, but lordy the city is now saying it won't finish the
Mar. 25 4:25 pm
Full Story at Dallas Morning News - Blogs
Live-blogging Midday: Is the health care law constitutional?
...on the people of Massachusetts. I just heard the SD Attorney General use the words "unfunded federal mandate". Isn;t that No Child Left Behind? Oh wait. Mike Hatch is talking about it! The following HTML tags are allowed in your comments: + Bold: Text +...
Mar. 25 4:05 pm
Full Story at MPR | Minnesota Public Radio
Steve Chapman: Education lessons lost on Obama
...We were mediocre then, and we're mediocre now. Hoover Institution scholar John Chubb, in his book "Learning from No Child Left Behind," laments that "only a third of American young people are demonstrating mastery of the knowledge and skills that education...
Mar. 25 2:07 pm
Full Story at The Orange County Register
'No Child' reading scores stagnated
...years largely stagnant, according to a federal report yesterday that suggests a dwindling academic payoff from the landmark No Child Left Behind law. The report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress showed that fourth-grade reading scores stalled...
Mar. 25 1:59 pm
Full Story at Columbus Dispatch
Lack of good health care curtails academic performance: Study
...several decades, a variety of strategies have been tried to help close the achievement gap - standards, accountability, NCLB, more rigorous teacher certification - and they're all important, but they won't have the desired effect unless students are ready...
Mar. 25 1:35 pm
Full Story at News-Medical.net
Standard & Poor [Opinions]
...the past few decades, reworking their public schools. Then, in 2001, President Bush signed the bi-partisan-supported No Child Left Behind (or NCLB) Act into law. The act stipulated that a lot of federal money (about $17 billion at the time; increased in 2007...
Mar. 25 1:31 pm
Full Story at The Morning News
The Drano Theory of History - Extending the "Big Change Moment"
...George Miller's proposal to fund over one million jobs is beginning to pick up steam, and the reauthorization of "No Child Left Behind" could reshape American education. The opponents of change were rocked by the victory of health care reform. Their entire...
Mar. 25 1:29 pm
Texas scores for student reading near national avg
DALLAS (AP) - Reading levels for Texas fourth and eighth grade students were just below national averages in a new review of what children are learning. Reading scores for fourth and eighth grade students held mostly steady last year. The average score
Mar. 25 1:04 pm
Education Reform and Leaving No Child Left Behind, Behind
...much light on the quality of his teachers, his administration or his school. Federal ed-reform legislation passed in 2002, No Child Left Behind, relies on annual standardized testing to evaluate schools, many of which are failing to reach ed-reform goals....
Mar. 25 12:04 am
Full Story at Wall Street Journal