The Answer Sheet Archive: No Child Left Behind
Defending Arne Duncan, sort of
Education Secretary Arne Duncan is getting bashed by critics and even supporters for telling Congress that 82 percent of public schools could be at risk of failing to meet education goals this year, up from 37 percent last year.
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Valerie Strauss
| March 10, 2011; 4:23 PM ET |
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Accountability, No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top
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education secretary arne duncan; arne duncan; nclb; no child left behind; 82 percent; ayp; adequate yearly progress; 82 percent and ayp;
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Poll on NCLB: Americans want overhaul (but does Congress?)
A new USA Today/Gallup poll shows that a strong majority of Americans support a major overhaul of No Child Left Behind or total elimination of the law. The question is what Congress will do.
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Valerie Strauss
| February 9, 2011; 5:00 AM ET |
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Guest Bloggers, Monty Neill, No Child Left Behind
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arne duncan, esea, low-performing schools, nclb, nclb overhaul, nclb poll, nclb sanctions, no child left behind, no child left behind reauthorization, poll on no child left behind, school reform
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Obama’s faulty education logic: What he said and failed to say
Someone should have told President Obama that there were important contradictions in the education portion of his State of the Union address before he delivered it to Congress.
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Valerie Strauss
| January 25, 2011; 10:15 PM ET |
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No Child Left Behind, Poverty, Race to the Top
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education reform, no child left behind, obama, obama education initiative, obama education reform, obama race to the top, obama speech, obama state of the union, president obama, public school reform, public schools, race to the top, state of the union, state of the union speech
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The case against NCLB reauthorization
Here's an argument by someone other than Margaret Spellings against reauthorization of No Child Left Behind.
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Valerie Strauss
| January 19, 2011; 5:00 AM ET |
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Guest Bloggers, No Child Left Behind
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edujobs, elementary and secondary education act, nclb, nclb reauthorization, no child left behind, obama and school reform, president obama, race to the top, reauthorization esea, school reforms
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NCLB's 9th anniversary: 'Will there be anything we will need to remember after the test?'
Nine years ago this week president Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act. Take a look at what it wrought.
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Valerie Strauss
| January 6, 2011; 11:15 AM ET |
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Guest Bloggers, No Child Left Behind, Standardized Tests
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congress and nclb, esea, esea reauthorization, national education association, nclb, nclb reauthorization, no child left behind, standardized testing, teachers unions
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A principal on standardized vs. teacher-written tests
Educator George Wood urges Congress not to rely on standardized tests to measure achievement. If you don't think that "data-driven decision-making" is really test-driven decision making, consider this: Ohio’s school report cards consist of 26 “data” points, and 24 of them—92%--are test scores.
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Valerie Strauss
| January 6, 2011; 5:00 AM ET |
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Congress, George Wood, Guest Bloggers, No Child Left Behind, Standardized Tests
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arne duncan, disaggregated data, education secretary duncan, elementary and secondary school act, esea, esea reauthoraization, george word, nclb, new congress, new york performance assessment consortium, no child left behind, reauthorization of no child left behind, standardized tests
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