A week after President Obama said he planned to rollback No Child Left Behind requirements, a majority of states have indicated they’re on board with the plan, and U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is encouraging others to do the same. In a recent appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Duncan said that he wants “to get ... read more »
Today, President Obama is expected to propose an overhaul to No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the federal law created in 2002 that changed education in the U.S. The result could be historic changes in the way schools are evaluated. One of the expected changes would be the removal of the mandate that every student pass state tests ... read more »
Apparently U.S. students are unfamiliar with the famous paraphrased aphorism, “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” That’s because a new report shows that students anywhere from high school to fourth grade are solely lacking in their knowledge of American history. Results from the 2010 gold standard of testing, the National ... read more »
Recent test scores show the children in the United States are getting higher scores on standardized reading and math tests. Why shouldn’t they, since NCLB has made it so that seemingly half the school year is spent preparing for them. The 2008 scores come from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a federal test considered ... read more »
We’ve grown rather resentful of the whole “teaching towards the test” mentality ourselves in recent years, so we certainly understand a Seattle teacher’s frustration when he refused to administer the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) to his students, and he made an admirable stand. But unfortunately, rules are rules and now he’s suffering the ... read more »
New York’s Department of Education just recently started awarding schools a “letter grade” based on how well students do on standardized tests. This measure is largely influenced by No Child Left Behind’s accountability measures. Well some yuppie parents in Park Slope and elsewhere are getting their panties in a wad because their hoity-toity schools are ... read more »
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