NCLB: Act II
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Education Week Roundup, Aug. 29
I'll be posting more on the House draft bill later, but I first I want to call your attention to the current issue of Education Week. As usual, it's full of NCLB news and commentary.
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House Draft: Growth Models, Multiple Measures, and More
Alyson Klein and I have seen a summary of the changes that House education leaders are proposing for Title I, Part A of NCLB. Both Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., and Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., signed onto the draft.
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Coming Soon: Miller's Draft
Rep. George Miller and his staff have been working hard during August recess. The chairman of the House education committee told Florida educators yesterday that he would be releasing a draft of NCLB bill soon, probably today. I checked the committee's Web site this morning and haven't found anything.
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Miller's Three-Point Plan
Rep. George Miller said last month that NCLB "is not fair, not flexible, and is not funded." In response to one question on this PBS Web chat, the chairman of the House education committee lays out three things he wants to change about the law:
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Richard Simmons: Fit Kids Are Smart Kids
In 11 years at Education Week, I've covered State of the Union Addresses, visited dozens of schools, and traveled to Antarctica. But I've never interviewed a Hollywood celebrity.
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AYP's Grade: Incomplete
One thing is almost certain about NCLB's future: The way AYP is calculated will change. Most, including the chairman of the House's education committee, would use students' test-score growth as the key indicator.
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Groups Sue Education Department Over Teacher Rules
Last week, Karl Rove suggested that Bush administration might flex executive muscle to change NCLB. Today, a coalition of California groups filed a lawsuit saying the administration hasn't been forceful enough in writing the law's highly qualified teacher rules. Read all about it here.
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Rove Speaks: Bush May Alter NCLB on His Own
I'm back from an NCLB-free vacation. Thanks to Alyson Klein for taking over the blog and to Sean Cavanagh for making a cameo appearance.
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Democrats Debate
Merit pay for teachers, which has been a subject of debate among lawmakers working towards reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act, was a point of discussion in the Democratic presidential debate in Iowa on Sunday. It’s particularly interesting to see how the three candidates who sit on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, which could take up an NCLB reauthorization bill as early as next month, came down on that issue, and on the education law generally.
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The High School Question
It’s unclear just how Congress will address the question of how—and whether—to expand parts of the No Child Left Behind Act to high schools. There’s no shortage of proposals out there, though, many of which are endorsed by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington-based advocacy organization headed up by former West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise, a Democrat.
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U.S. Chamber Weighs In
This week, one of the leading voices in the U.S. business lobby, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, offered some specifics on the kinds of changes to the law its leaders will support, with this underlying message: Hold firm.
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Field Hearing
The Senate, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee held a field hearing in Sante Fe, New Mexico on NCLB on August 10, exploring the impact of the law on Native American students, which so far, has been an under-the-radar-issue in the larger reauthorization debate.
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Pelosi Speaks
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been largely silent about the No Child Left Behind Act. But yesterday she told the National Conference of State Legislatures that Congress will make such signficant changes to the law that it will have to be renamed.