NCLB: Act II
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Keegan Explains Where McCain Stands on NCLB
Lisa Graham Keegan sat down with Michele McNeil and a bunch of reporters this morning to explain where Sen. John McCain of Arizona stands on education. Keegan, the top education adviser to the presumptive Republican nominee, had a lot to say about NCLB funding, school choice, and intervening in low-performing schools.
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Today's Solution: Schools Are the Answer
Another day, another big statement from education leaders.
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More News of the Day
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings made news of her own today. She announced that Michigan and Missouri will be allowed to use growth models. Michigan can start now, but Missouri has to adopt the same 'n' for all subgroups before it can change over to growth.
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Your NCLB News of the Day
Three quick things before I run off and spend the day in downtown D.C.
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'No Decision' in Round One of Debate Between Campaign Advisers
Friday's face-off between education advisers left a lot of us wanting more. Jeanne Century of the Obama campaign and Lisa Graham Keegan of the McCain campaign gave an overview of their candidates' stands on NCLB and other education issues. But they didn't clear explanations on some nitty-gritty policy questions.
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Welcome Joel Packer, Again
Ed Week's self-appointed ombudsman Mike Petrilli alerts everyone that NEA is advertising its newest podcast/blog here and on other blogs on this site. (Hey, Mike, edweek.org wouldn't take advertising, either, if we had an endowment paying our salaries.)
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Schools Seek 'Safe Harbor' From 100 Percent Proficiency
Charlie Barone's reacts to the Center on Education Policy's report warning that some states will ask schools to make "rapid and steep jumps" in student achievement. (See Steep Climb to NCLB Goal for 23 States.)
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Principals' Group Joins Push for National Standards
The National Association of Secondary School Principals is the latest group to endorse national standards.
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NCLB's High Stakes for Teachers
Last fall, Madison, Wis., teacher David Wasserman was reprimanded for refusing to proctor a state test with high-stakes implications under NCLB. This spring, Seattle teacher Carl Chew was suspended after he refused to give the Washington state tests. Chew explains the reasons for his protest in this item.
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Commenters Give Edge to NEA's Blog With "All the Answers"
The NEA's NCLB guru, Joel Packer, is the newest voice in the education blogosphere. He's posted three podcasts and their transcripts under a banner ad that brags: "Joel Packer Has All the Answers."
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Take a Peek at a Potential Alternative to Standardized Tests
NCLB's testing rules have come under criticism from in Education Week's commentary page, during prime-time, and on the campaign trail.
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Once Again, Obama Says He'll 'Fix' NCLB
Sen. Barack Obama didn't add much new to his plans for NCLB in his education speech near Denver yesterday.
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'Backloaded' Goals Raise Questions About 100 Percent Proficiency
While I was out last week, the Center on Education Policy released a report saying that about half of the states are delaying the pain for schools under NCLB. (See the edweek.org story from last week.) They've made it easy for schools to make AYP in the early years of implementation and are expecting (or just hoping?) that schools will escalate achievement gains when the goal of universal proficiency looms in 2014.
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As End of Spring Nears, NCLB's Prospects Dim
Back in January, Rep. George Miller told me that he and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy had a plan to reauthorize NCLB by this spring. That seemed like an ambitious goal, then. Now it looks unattainable. Indeed, the prospect of the law being reauthorized in 2008 dimmed last week with the news of the Massachusetts Democrat's brain tumor.