History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
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Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
As NCLB comes under consideration, we need to value teachers more
- 03-17-2011
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Blog by John Merrow/Huffington Post
American public education remains front and center, which is mostly good news. Let me start this "news summary" in Washington, DC, where President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are calling for fundamental changes in the law known as No Child Left Behind, the Bush Administration's version of Title One of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. No Child Left Behind. I doubt you could find more than a handful of educators who like NCLB these days, but whether anyone in the nation's capital will be able to agree on what a new version should call for is highly questionable. To recap the law's flaws would take a long time; Learning Matters produced an award-winning series on it a few years ago, which you can see here. In my view, the best thing about NCLB was its insistence on 'disaggregating' data so that high scores from one group can no longer mask low performance by other groups. I also admire one phrase from the run-up to the law, "the soft bigotry of low expectations." (more...)
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