I don’t frequent the Huffington Post often, but this Tom Vander Ark piece on revising NCLB is good reading and goes well with my series on fixing No Child Left Behind. He rightly notes that NCLB exists because “school boards (and state boards) allowed generations of chronic failure.” This is correct, and education reformers that [...]
It seems as if I won’t get a straight answer to my question to Arne Duncan after all. Jay Mathews has posted the news tidbit he mentioned in response to my question where it is suggested that we try to add important words for the new NCLB. While I would prefer firm answers to being [...]
To wrap up this series, some final thoughts on NCLB. For the new, visit the rest of the series: Part One [Removing Bad Elements] Part Two [Enhancing What Works] Part Three [What Should Stay] What This Law Now Means Educational is now a national issue. Yes, in many ways it has always been, but for [...]
For today final look in the series in how I’d fix NCLB, I would like to focus on a few things the law does well. I feel I’ve been pretty even-handed with this bill. Part One focused on what I thought the law was doing wrong, especially in poor ways that I thought it statistically [...]
In continuing from yesterday post on items that I thought the feds should ease up on on NCLB, let’s look at what items I think should be toughened or initiated. Items I Would Strengthen: Make the deadlines for providing parents with options to change schools be more quickly given and put teeth in the law [...]
The NYT has a brilliant piece on recovery credit. It expresses opinions about quick-fix graduation programs (that they are dumbing down diplomas and graduating illiterate students) that I have always heard teachers mumble under their breath as these programs are a struggling school’s safety net. I was amazed in today’s blogosphere filled with opinions on [...]
Andy Rotherham over at Eduwonk is running a growing rename-NCLB contest. What started as a small joke has become a growing phenomenon, with even a New York Times article on the blog. I, who subscribe to Eduwonk, got in two submissions of my own on the first day: Not Even We Think This Will Work [...]
