Showing posts with label NCLB. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NCLB. Show all posts
Friday, January 30, 2009

Must we obsess about student test scores?

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This is a cross-post from Chip's Journey . It connects with Amy Shuffelton's very interesting post below about testing children. I s...
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Monday, December 15, 2008

Duncan a Consensus Choice: Obama Retains Tension between Competing Policy Camps

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The Associated Press today reports in an article that Arne Duncan, selected to lead the Education Department in the Obama administration, i...
Tuesday, September 2, 2008

GOP Education Platform Echoes McCain's Strong Conservative Proposals

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The GOP has endorsed an education platform with many of the K-12 proposals of Sen. John McCain, Education Week reports today. It calls for m...

Margaret Spellings Pleased with Failure to Re-Authorize NCLB

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Interviewed at the GOP convention on Monday September 1, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings says that she is happy that NCLB was not ...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

The Democratic Party Education Platform

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The few remarks on education in Joe Biden's acceptance speech last night were lifted directly from pages 18-21 of the democratic electio...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Obama and McCain on Education

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A blog at the Chicago Sun Times offers a comparison of the two candidates on educational policy issues. Neither candidate has made education...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The Kings of New York

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The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Genuises Who Make Up America's Top HighSchool Chess Team by Michael Weinre...
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Monday, October 15, 2007

Payday for NCLB?

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NCLB has entered its fifth year, the year that its draconian sanctions are scheduled to take effect. But almost all of the schools serving p...
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Diane Ravitch Urges Major Overhaul of NCLB

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Diance Ravitch has an op-ed article in the New York Times today urging major overhaul of NCLB. Her proposal is first, to abandon the silly r...
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