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| Obama's No Child Left Behind Revisions |
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
2/1/2010
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According to today’s New York Times, President Obama will propose a number of important changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which under the Bush Administration was known as No Child Left Behind. The good news is that Obama plans to eliminate some of the most problematic features of NCLB. The bad news is that he may introduce some new problems, drawing on the administration’s current “Race to the Top” education program. Continue Reading on the Taking Note blog. |
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| Avoid Top-down Policies that Disrespect Teaching |
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Gordon MacInnes,
The Century Foundation,
10/7/2009
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| Education Secretary Arne Duncan has a point--the prevailing system for preparing, recruiting, evaluating, retaining, and compensating teachers does not work well. There is broad agreement that prospective teachers require more clinical experience; that inexperienced teachers need more and better mentoring; that evaluations of classroom teachers are routinized and of little value; that accumulated course credits do not usually pay off in better classroom performance; that seniority doesn’t guarantee quality instruction; and, that it is too cumbersome and expensive to dismiss bad teachers. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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| No Child Left Behind’s Incentive Game |
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Marco Basile,
The Century Foundation,
8/17/2009
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| At a recent education policy gathering of top social scientists from fifteen universities and several policy research organizations, the best line of the day came from a reporter at the back of the room. Various longitudinal studies of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) had been presented at a conference dedicated to evaluating the 2001 Act by the time a young reporter raised his hand, stood up, and asked with a straight face: “Could any of today’s speakers please tell us whether or not the No Child Left Behind Act is working?” Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog. |
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| No Child Left Behind’s Impotence on the Achievement Gap |
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
11/21/2006
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| The New York Times this week featured on its front page a story by Sam Dillon on the slow progress that the No Child Left Behind Act has made on closing the achievement gap between students of different racial and ethnic groups – a major goal of the law. But the result should not be surprising to serious students of education research, which has shown for 40 years that educating rich and poor students separately is a recipe for disaster – one that disproportionately affects African American and Latino children. |
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| Enforcing the No Child Left Behind Act |
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
7/25/2006
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| Reports that the U.S. Department of Education may, at long last, start levying fines against states failing to comply with the federal No Child Left Behind Act could be very good news for poor children. |
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| NCLB's Poison Pill |
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Greg Anrig,
The Century Foundation,
1/15/2006
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| The No Child Left Behind Act set in place an accountability regime that, in essence, requires states to tell their citizens that much of the public school system is failing—and almost inexorably getting worse by the year. That's been a huge gift to conservatives. |
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