History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Overhauling No Child Left Behind
- 03-16-2010
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Editorial/Los Angeles Times
If the No Child Left Behind Act is to be overhauled -- and it should be -- the new version should strip away the law's overly prescriptive notions of what constitutes improvement and impose fairer ways of holding schools accountable. Though some of the fixes outlined Monday by the Obama administration would improve the law, others could prove as rigid, and therefore as unrealistic, as the original, which naively promised to make every student academically proficient. The new target is for 100% of high schoolers to be graduating by 2020, and for all of those graduates to be "college ready." We're glad to see the Obama administration target dropout rates; reducing them is a necessary and achievable goal. (more...)
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