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Do the Right Thing: NCLB and High Standards

Eric Tipler | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Education, Department of Education, No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, Standardized Testing, Education Reform, Standards, Schools, Nclb, Politics News
Eric Tipler

No Child Left Behind is fading from policy discussions, but it continues to shape daily life in schools in a very negative way. Capitol Hill should not forget about the law. Teachers certainly haven't.

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The Teacher is the Key

Esther Wojcicki | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Standardized Testing, High-Stakes Testing, Learning Points Associates, Michelle Obama, Teaching, Gates Foundation, Nclb, Politics News
Esther Wojcicki

It sounds like an old adage, but we desperately need to support teachers in the classroom and modify the NCLB Act, which is now up for renewal. Supporting teachers is key to our success as a nation.

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Go Slow to Go Fast (Why ESEA Should Wait)

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Education, Arne Duncan, George Miller, Nclb, Politics News
Tom Vander Ark

There's an old saying in business that sometimes you have to go slow to go fast; in other words, you have to build the infrastructure of support in order to create profound change.

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Grading the Big Tests: A Study in Madness... and a Really Good New Book

Dan Brown | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Public Schools, Todd Farley, Diana Senechal, No Child Left Behind, Diane Ravitch, Teachers Unions, Making the Grades, gothamschools.org, New York Times, Standardized Testing, Teachers, Education Reform, Nclb, Publc Schools, Media News
Dan Brown

In the No Child Left Behind era, every pillar of our education system rests on the presupposition that standardized tests are accurate indicators. Todd Farley helps to bring into starker focus that this is a flawed ideology.

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Mass Teacher Layoffs in D.C. Amount To One Hell of a Power Play by Michelle Rhee

Dan Brown | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Michelle Rhee, Dc Rif, Dcps, No Child Left Behind, Teachers Unions, Adrian Fenty, Teach for America, New York City Public Schools, Dc Reduction in Force, Education, Dc Schools, George PArker, Joel Klein, School Accountability, Standardized Testing, Education Reform, Nclb, High Stakes Testing, Wtu, Politics News
Dan Brown

Rhee's mislaid battle of gutting the union and purging veteran teachers will leave an experience and institutional knowledge vacuum that no quantity of super-caffeinated 22-year-old Yalies can remake.

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Fixing No Child Left Behind: What Our Schools Really Need

Susan Kane | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Mom Congress, Obama No Child Left Behind, President Obama, Children, School Reform, Education, Parenting Magazine, Parenting, Standardized Testing, Schools, Parenting School Years, Obama School Reform, Parenting.com, Petition to Congress, Politics News, Bush Administration, Class Size, Nclb, Barack Obama Education Policy, Obama School Speech, Education Reform, No Child Left Behind Reauthorization, Politics News
Susan Kane

As millions of kids headed back to school this month, many parents, teachers, and administrators had a lot to think about. Things like, will there actually be enough seats in the ballooning classes?

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What Will Duncan Do?

Eric Tipler | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Arne Duncan, Education, Nclb, Rtt, No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, Education Reform, Living News
Eric Tipler

Arne Duncan's plan comes down to getting more and better data about student performance, and tying it back to individual teachers and schools. As someone who taught under No Child Left Behind, this is scary.

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So We Can't Have Single Payer for Health Care, But How About Single Payer for Education?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: School Resegregation, Public Schools, Prison Industry, Education, Prison Industrial Complex, Education Policy, No Child Left Behind, School Reform, Prisons, Education Reform, Nclb, Reading, School Segregation, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

To produce education reform that is reform in more than name only, we need to look past our own political backyards at what might lie on the other side of the mountain. What I see on that other side is a single-payer education system. It's simple, sensible and, above all, just.  READ MORE

Has Obama's Handling of the Bank Bailout Undermined Health Care Reform?   One of the consequences of the one-sided bailout of Wall Street is the way it has undermined public trust in government.  Much of the health care anger is a proxy for bailout anger.  If we don't learn from the botched bailout, we are in danger of getting the same reform-in-name-only outcome on health care. READ MORE

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A Sneak Peek at Obama's Speech to Schoolchildren

Gary Stager | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arne Duncan, Standardized Testing, Education, Education Reform, Nclb, Race to the Top, President Obama, Politics News
Gary Stager

The good thing about the endless assault of standardized language arts and arithmetic tests you endure is that you won't learn anything about history, civics or politics.

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Even Congress Gets Recess, So Why Are Schools Taking It Away From Kids?

Darell Hammond | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Play, Public Schools, Living News, Children, School Reform, Children's Health, Nclb, Education, Recess, Living News
Darell Hammond

Recess -- the one section of the school day that's reserved for child-directed, child-motivated unstructured play -- is slowly disappearing from our public schools.

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Schools That Foster Innovation

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Innovation, Education Reform, Nclb, Politics News
Tom Vander Ark

What if students innovate themselves out of school, would we count that as success? The opportunities for independent study are growing exponentially -- two million students will be learning online this fall.

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Brooks Suggests Education Course of Action

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Education Reform, Arne Duncan, Nclb, Charter Schools, David Brooks, Barack Obama, Politics News
Tom Vander Ark

I'm trying to figure out whether the stimulus bill and a hard charging Secretary of Education will produce any real progress.

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Overhyping Teach For America, Undercutting Millions of Students

Dan Brown | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Teacher Retention, Thomas Friedman, Economy, Teacher Certification, Teacher, No Child Lief Behind, Uft, Nctaf, Teach for America, Tfa, National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, Aft, Education, Quality Teachers, Alternative Route, Teacher Recruitment, School Reform, New York Times, Teacher Turnover, Teachers, Education Reform, Nclb, Politics News
Dan Brown

I'm concerned that Teach for America is being propped up by many as a cure-all for America's education woes, when it is nothing of the kind.

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Transform Education? Yes, We Must

Sir Ken Robinson | Posted 02.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Education, Obama Education, Obama Education Policy, No Child Left Behind, Barack Obama Education Policy, Nclb, Barack Obama Education, No Child Left Behind Obama, Politics News
Sir Ken Robinson

Economically and culturally, the future of America and of the rest of world lies now in a different direction. It will depend on the vitality, diversity and creativity of all its people.

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David Brooks Made Me Wring My Hands: Obama and His Education Secretary Pick

Dan Brown | Posted 01.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Michelle Rhee, Linda Darling-Hammond, No Child Left Behind, New York Times, Naomi Klein, High-Stakes Testing, Nea, Barack Obama, Uft, Teacher Quality, Teacher Union, Aft, Shock Doctrine, David Brooks, Nclb, Joel Klein, School Accountability, Education Reform, Newt Gingrich, Cabinet Appointments, Media News
Dan Brown

In his most recent op-ed, David Brooks offers Americans a false choice between two distinct camps of education interests. Here's hoping our new president will sweep aside that brand of discourse.

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Making the Right Choices for Education and the Economy

Randi Weingarten | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, Nclb, Economy, Education Reform, Finance, Money, Economic Reform, Politics News
Randi Weingarten

The financial crisis, the deepening recession, and their destructive consequences all threaten state and local governments' most essential investment: educating the next generation.

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"Reinvest, Don't Disinvest" in Education: Randi Weingarten Takes the National Stage

Dan Brown | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Nea, American Federation of Teachers, Performance Pay, Randi Weingarten, Economy, Michael Bloomberg, National Education Association, United Federation of Teachers, Barack Obama, Nclb, Aft, Teachers, Education Reform, National Press Club, George Miller, Dennis Van Roekel, Politics News
Dan Brown

Weingarten's speech was an impassioned call to spare the hatchet -- or scalpel -- in federal funding for education.

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Leave Bad Schools Behind

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Education, Election Reaction, Accountability, Nclb, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Leave Bad Schools Behind Act of 2009, Charter Managment Organizaitons, No Child Left Behind, ESEA, School Accountability, CMOs, Politics News
Tom Vander Ark

A 'good school' goal requires a serious accountability system, a system that differentiates between 'chronic failure' and 'room for improvement'

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Educators: If You Enjoy NCLB, You'll Love the McCain/Palin Plan!

Gary Stager | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, John McCain, Education Reform, Nclb, Sarah Palin, Presidential Politics, Phonics, Politics News
Gary Stager

Although much of what Sarah Palin says in her education plan for Alaska, reads like an undergraduate homework assignment, she does express support for something called ABC Schools.

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Illuminating Public Schools' Possibilities: "Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way"

Dan Brown | Posted 08.06.2008 | Living

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Aft, Education, Urban Education, Nclb, High-Stakes Testing, Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way, Teachers, Education Reform, Nea, Brian Schultz, Project Citizen, Living News
Dan Brown

What happens when a teacher decides to disregard the canned standards and the stacks of test prep materials? Do the students wallow in ignorance, cheated out of a proper education by an "activist" teacher?

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HBO Raises the Bar Again With Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card

Dan Brown | Posted 06.27.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Public Schools, Susan Raymond, No Child Left Behind, Hbo, School Reform, Standardized Testing, Alan Raymond, Hard Times at Douglass High, Nclb, Entertainment News
Dan Brown

Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond are too smart to offer up any magic bullets. Their fascinating documentary puts viewers inside Baltimore's Frederick Douglass High School for a full school year.

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Obama's Education Speech Fired Me Up

Dan Brown | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, No Child Left Behind, Mentors, Education, Student Achievement, Teacher Residency Programs, Nclb, Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts, Standardized Testing, High-Stakes Testing, Barack Obama, Denver Post, Politics News
Dan Brown

Last week in Colorado, Barack Obama gave a truly incisive speech on improving education in America.

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Bill Clinton: Fix Bush Education Law

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Bill Clinton, Democratic Primary, Edward Kennedy, Ted Kennedy Endorses Obama, Hillary Clinton 2008, No Child Left Behind, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Election, Nclb, Barack Obama, Politics News

TEMPE, Ariz. — Former President Clinton said that if his wife is elected president she would radically change the "No Child Left Behind Act," wh...

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