Blog Posts
Obama?s Race to the Top Under Fire in California and US
...who need the most help. We find this top-down approach disturbing; we have been down that road before with the failures of No Child Left Behind, and we cannot support yet another layer of federal mandates that have little or no research base of success and...
Aug. 23 4:12 pm
Diane Ravitch: Obama's Awful Education Plan
...Obama and his promise of change than the nation's teachers. Poll after poll showed that they despised President Bush's "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) law with its demand for testing, testing, testing. When asked, teachers said that NCLB was driving out everything...
Aug. 23 2:50 pm
Effective and disconnected
...Stewart discuss healthcare reform is as idiotic as having David Letterman discuss cap and trade or Conan O?Brien discuss No Child Left Behind. This is actually a pretty old Republican tactic. Refer to some official document Well older than your examples. Like...
Aug. 23 2:42 pm
Silver State High School's growth, achievement comes after journey
...our Northwest Association of Accredited Schools (NAAS) accreditation in 2006 and last year made High Achieving under No Child Left Behind mandates. Recently the state school board commended us on a job well done. But that wasn't enough. Parents, for a few...
Aug. 23 11:42 am
Full Story at NevadaAppeal.com
1 Nixa, 3 Ozark schools fall short of benchmark
...Nixa and three Ozark schools fell short of the Adequate Yearly Progress benchmark mandated by the federal No Child Left Behind law, according to test results released last week. The schools that missed the mark are Nixa Junior High and Ozark Junior High, Upper...
Aug. 23 8:47 am
Full Story at The Springfield News-Leader
Lend a helping hand
...The most recent philanthropic effort came this week when a Staunton elementary school didn't make the grade in the federal No Child Left Behind results. A.R. Ware Elementary didn't pass the Adequate Yearly Progress evaluation for the second year in one subgroup,...
Aug. 23 7:25 am
Full Story at The Staunton News Leader
Rio Rancho High satisfied with progress on AYP
...Richard Von Ancken said he?s not upset about his school not meeting Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), as mandated by the federal No Child Left Behind legislation. RRHS failed to meet AYP in three areas: math proficiency for English Language Learners and Students...
Aug. 23 6:13 am
Full Story at Rio Rancho Observer
Stimulus expands math, reading classes
...if this funding hadn?t have come through, he said. Receiving Title I funds will make both middle schools vulnerable to No Child Left Behind sanctions if they fail to make state-mandated standardized test requirements (such as the WASL). Neither school met...
Aug. 23 6:10 am
Full Story at The Daily News Online
Navarrette: The question of control
...on the left have pointed out, the Race to the Top actually puts even more emphasis on those dreaded test scores than did No Child Left Behind. Whereas the Bush measure used test scores to evaluate schools, what Duncan has in mind is to use those scores to...
Aug. 23 5:02 am
Full Story at Austin American-Statesman
Union attacks Obama's school plan
...improve schools. "We find this top-down approach disturbing; we have been down that road before with the failures of No Child Left Behind," the union wrote in its comments, "and we cannot support yet another layer of federal mandates that have little or no...
Aug. 23 4:15 am
Full Story at Albany Times-Union