If you haven’t read President Obama’s blueprint for reforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), it’s available for download here. All in all, it’s a pretty good outline and contains elements for everyone, but ultimately it should be seen as a reasonable compromise document on a contentious law. It doesn’t solve any of the [...]
All Posts Tagged: 'NCLB Reauthorization'
Obama’s Blueprint for ESEA Reauthorization
March 15th, 2010 | Category: Accountability
Posted by Chad Aldeman at 1:32 pm | Tags: Elementary and Secondary Education Act, ESEA Reauthorization, NCLB Reauthorization, No Child Left Behind, President Obama | No Comments
College- and Career-Ready Standards Exist; Accountability Lags Behind
March 2nd, 2010 | Category: Accountability
Yesterday I wrote that President Obama was wrong to rename Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to “College- and Career-Ready Standards,” because, “it would allow states to abuse the phrase by adopting their own standards and certifying them as “college- and career-ready” without [the standards] actually meaning anything.”
Those fears are valid, according [...]
Posted by Chad Aldeman at 6:21 pm | Tags: Achieve, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, NCLB Reauthorization | 2 Comments
On the Likelihood of NCLB Reauthorization
February 26th, 2010 | Category: Accountability
The National Journal took the pulse of congressional insiders asking them how likely certain pieces of legislation were to pass. Democrats put the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind at a 5.0 on a 10-point scale (10 being guaranteed to pass this Congress), while Republicans gave it a 3.7. Most interesting were a couple ad-hoc [...]
Posted by Chad Aldeman at 12:07 pm | Tags: Elementary and Secondary Education Act, NCLB, NCLB Reauthorization, No Child Left Behind | No Comments
A Modest Proposal for NCLB Reauthorization
February 21st, 2010 | Category: Accountability
Senior House Republicans and Democrats recently announced a new bi-partisan effort to re-authorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It’s a good sign for some real progress, both for education specifically and Washington in general, but there’s been no word on whether the Senate is so inclined. The “proposals” put forward so far by the [...]
Posted by Chad Aldeman at 7:12 pm | Tags: Elementary and Secondary Education Act, NCLB Reauthorization, No Child Left Behind | 2 Comments
NAEP Math 2009: What It All Means
October 14th, 2009 | Category: Accountability
The 2009 state NAEP math results were released today, and they’re disappointing. Fourth grade scores, which have been a great and under-recognized success story over the last two decades, were flat. Eighth grade scores rose slightly. What to conclude? Most broadly, that most of the claims about national education policy, pro and con, have been [...]
Posted by Kevin Carey at 2:44 pm | Tags: ESEA, NAEP, NCLB, NCLB Reauthorization, state NAEP math results | 7 Comments
Testing in the 21st Century
November 7th, 2008 | Category: Accountability
I know a lot of people are tired of testing, and some are tired of hearing about 21st century skills. But both are here to stay and both matter tremendously for education reform. Improving assessment is the very first bullet in Obama’s list of how to reform NCLB, and he intends to do it by [...]
Posted by Elena Silva at 8:26 am | Tags: 21st Century Skills, Educational Testing, NCLB Reauthorization, New Assessment Models | 18 Comments
An Education Mandate?
October 15th, 2008 | Category: Accountability
Over at Flypaper, Mike Petrilli asks, “Will Obama have a mandate on education?” His answer is: “not really,” and I think he’s right. In general I think Obama’s education plan hits the right notes: early childhood education, human capital, support for charter schools, willingness to talk seriously about thorny teacher pay issues. Just as importantly, [...]
Er…
June 10th, 2008 | Category: Accountability
The K-12 blog topic du jour is clearly the “Broader, Bolder” education agenda that was released today via large ads in the Post and Times. A lot of the agenda items are very worthwhile in their own right, and the signatories include many smart, thoughtful people from across the ideological spectrum. But the individual ideas [...]
Posted by Kevin Carey at 3:36 pm | Tags: Broader Bolder, Education Reform, George Miller, NCLB Reauthorization, Ted Kennedy | No Comments
A Narrowed Point of View
March 6th, 2008 | Category: Accountability
Since it looks like NCLB isn’t going to reauthorized until 2010 or so, we should probably all hunker down and prepare for a steady stream of stories like this one, about a Montgomery County elementary school that spent an entire morning focused on art in protest of the curriculum narrowing effects of the federal law. [...]
Posted by Kevin Carey at 7:25 am | Tags: art and music instruction, Center on Education Policy, Md., Montgomery County, NCLB Reauthorization | No Comments
It’s (Not) So Easy
December 19th, 2007 | Category: Accountability
The Post ran a useful article a few days ago (”Calls Grow for a Broader Yardstick For Schools”) about one of the more interesting challenges of NCLB reauthorization and education policy generally: expanding the scope of educational accountability beyond standardized test scores in reading and math to include many other important things–mastery of other subjects, [...]
Posted by Kevin Carey at 2:45 pm | Tags: Assessment, Ed Trust, NCLB Reauthorization, Student Data | No Comments
Barone Speaks
October 17th, 2007 | Category: Accountability
Charlie Barone is offering up a wealth of informed commentary on NCLB reauthorization and other matters over at Swift & Change Able. Plus, they have cartoons. I’m jealous!
New NAEP results
September 25th, 2007 | Category: Accountability
The latest NAEP results are public, with no real surprises. Now we’ll have to spend the next 24 hours or so sifting through various news stories, spin, and counter-spin focused on NCLB reauthorization. I guarantee that 99 percent of all of this — both the stories and the warring spin — was put together well [...]
Posted by Kevin Carey at 11:22 am | Tags: Education Reform, NAEP, NCLB Reauthorization | No Comments
Right Now: House Hearings on NCLB
September 10th, 2007 | Category: Accountability
The House Committee on Education and Labor is holding hearings all day today on NCLB 2. Check out the schedule and listen to the live webcast, going on right now.
Update: Read Kevin’s full testimony to the committee here.
What You Should Think About the New Version of No Child Left Behind, Part (and Title) II
September 7th, 2007 | Category: Accountability, Teacher Quality
The House Committee on Education and Labor released the second part of its discussion draft amendments to the No Child Left Behind Act this morning. The first part, discussed on Q&E earlier this week (and at Eduwonk here), dealt with Title I of the law, which contains the high-profile and deeply controversial accountability provisions. But [...]
Posted by Kevin Carey at 2:20 pm | Tags: HOUSSE, NCLB Reauthorization, Title I, Title II | No Comments
Who’s Saying What About NCLB Re-Auth
September 7th, 2007 | Category: Accountability
The rest of NCLB discussion draft is available for weekend reading.
Also, ECS has a database of what folks are saying about the reauthorization. And they’ve got a survey monkey set up to gather more info from the masses here.
Flexing Our Way Towards Reform?
July 23rd, 2007 | Category: Accountability
Just like during NCLB’s creation, the issue of local control over federal dollars is brimming to the surface again. While far less sexy than highly effective teachers or growth models, flexibility may be another looming battle in the fight over if/when/how to reauthorize NCLB. Recently, Representative Howard “Buck” McKeon introduced the State and Local [...]
Posted by admin at 4:36 am | Tags: NCLB Reauthorization, Rural School Districts, State & Local Flexibility, U.S. Department of Education | No Comments
NCLB (R)Evolution?
July 2nd, 2007 | Category: Accountability
The SCOTUS desegregation decision sucked up all the ed policy air last week, but other issues still moved ahead, e.g. NCLB reauthorization (subject of today’s lead WaPost editorial), to which Sec. Spellings added some new ideas as reported by USA Today’s Greg Toppo:Go
U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings on Wednesday proposed “a more nuanced” way of [...]
Posted by Kevin Carey at 6:51 am | Tags: Achievement Gaps, Adequate Yearly Progress, Growth Model, NCLB Reauthorization, Secretary Margaret Spellings | No Comments
Wah, Wah, Good One
August 31st, 2006 | Category: Accountability
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings in today’s Washington Post:
for people who say, ‘Wah, wah, we can’t have spelling bees because we have to focus on math and reading’ — let’s measure the spelling”
It’s an arguable position on an issue of central importance to the coming reauthorization of NCLB. A lot of NCLB criticisms boil down [...]
Posted by Kevin Carey at 8:18 am | Tags: NCLB Reauthorization, Secretary Margaret Spellings, Standardized Testing, Tested Subjects | No Comments
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College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/19/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on college graduation rates and the NCAA Tournament in the Detroit Free Press.
03/19/10 | Linda Perlstein links to Education Sector's "College- and Career-Ready" event.
03/17/10 | Ben Miller's column on graduation rates and NCAA Tournament eligibility is mentioned on The Wall Street Journal's The Daily Fix.
03/17/10 | Kevin Carey's critique of Diane Ravitch's latest book is quoted in Doublethink's Conventional Folly blog.
03/15/10 | Ben Miller pens an op-ed for US News & World Report on using graduation rates to determine NCAA Tournament eligibility.