History of IDEA
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Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Do we really need another NCLB hearing?
- 09-13-2011
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
Oh good. The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce is holding a hearing on Wednesday morning to examine problems with No Child Left Behind’s accountability system. And if there is one thing we need, it is one more hearing during which witnesses can repeat the same complaints they have made for years about the fatal flaws of NCLB and its Adequate Yearly Progress accountability system. AYP has at its core the unattainable mandate that almost all students score proficient on their state’s standardized tests in reading and math by 2014 in staged steps. Schools that fail to do this face serious consequences, and as the deadline gets closer, more schools are missing their AYP goals and some are being unfairly declared to be failing. (NCLB’s authors knew the mandate was not feasible, but put it in anyway to spur states to reform.) (more...)
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