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- 12-06-2011
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By Lisa Guisbond and Monty Neill/Washington Post
Like the same old laundry detergent with a “new and improved” sticker, sometimes the only real change in U.S. education policy is the language used to describe it. The federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law is badly tarnished. Even Education Secretary Arne Duncan is running away from it, offering waivers from NCLB’s demand for “adequate yearly progress” on state test scores. To get the waivers, states must propose how they will measure student progress. Some states, such as Minnesota and Colorado, have said they will use “multiple measures.” This would represent significant progress if state politicians were talking about the real thing. Real multiple measures use a variety of different ways to measure student learning over time. (more...)
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