Leaving 'No Child' law: Obama lets 10 states flee
By Ben Feller Associated Press February 9, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — It could be the beginning of the end for No Child Left Behind. The goal was lofty: Get all children up to par in math and reading by...
View ArticleTwo NCLB Rewrite Bills Approved
The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce passed 2 bills, the Student Success Act and the Encouraging Innovation and Effective Teachers Act, part of a package intended to overhaul No...
View ArticleNewswire: January 8, 2013
Vol. 15, No. 1 Happy New Year! The first half of the first month of 2013 is not even finished and already the momentum — and opposition — around education reform is building. To wit: STATE POLICY...
View ArticleLessons for US and Our Children From 9/11
Everyone has a story about what was happening ten years ago, on that originally beautiful morning that soon turned into the nightmare we now know as September 11, 2001. I was watching live coverage of...
View ArticleDaily Headlines for September 23, 2011
Obama Rewrites ‘No Child’ Law Wall Street Journal, September 23, 2011 President Barack Obama is set to replace key planks of former President George W. Bush’s signature No Child Left Behind education...
View ArticleDaily Headlines for September 26, 2011
Obama Presses Education Plan Wall Street Journal, September 24, 2011 President Barack Obama in his weekly radio address on Saturday said a strong education system is key to the nation’s economic future...
View ArticleDaily Headlines for September 27, 2011
Better Way to Fix No Child Left Behind New York Times, NY, September 27, 2011 Last week President Obama, citing a failure by Congress to act, announced a procedure for handing out waivers for the...
View ArticleDaily Headlines for September 29, 2011
Fighting the Feds: 2012 Candidates Want States to Control Education ABC News, September 29, 2011 So when it comes to education policy debates, whether it’s the Democratic incumbent or the array of...
View ArticleNCLB Waivers: The Ultimate Ego Trip
The move by states to secure waivers to NCLB requirements is intended to provide more flexibility to their school districts so that – as the theory goes – states and communities can respond to mounting...
View ArticleA Reformer’s Course of Action For the Next Generation of ESEA
Defining the Needs of Substantive Education Reform in Federal Programs By Jeanne Allen, Alison Consoletti and Kara Kerwin Policy Perspective July 2013 PDF version Despite the lack of consensus on just...
View ArticleLessons for US and Our Children From 9/11
Everyone has a story about what was happening ten years ago, on that originally beautiful morning that soon turned into the nightmare we now know as September 11, 2001. I was watching live coverage of...
View ArticleDaily Headlines for September 23, 2011
Obama Rewrites ‘No Child’ Law Wall Street Journal, September 23, 2011 President Barack Obama is set to replace key planks of former President George W. Bush’s signature No Child Left Behind education...
View ArticleDaily Headlines for September 26, 2011
Obama Presses Education Plan Wall Street Journal, September 24, 2011 President Barack Obama in his weekly radio address on Saturday said a strong education system is key to the nation’s economic future...
View ArticleDaily Headlines for September 27, 2011
Better Way to Fix No Child Left Behind New York Times, NY, September 27, 2011 Last week President Obama, citing a failure by Congress to act, announced a procedure for handing out waivers for the...
View ArticleDaily Headlines for September 29, 2011
Fighting the Feds: 2012 Candidates Want States to Control Education ABC News, September 29, 2011 So when it comes to education policy debates, whether it’s the Democratic incumbent or the array of...
View ArticleLeaving 'No Child' law: Obama lets 10 states flee
By Ben Feller Associated Press February 9, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — It could be the beginning of the end for No Child Left Behind. The goal was lofty: Get all children up to par in math and reading by...
View ArticleTwo NCLB Rewrite Bills Approved
The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce passed 2 bills, the Student Success Act and the Encouraging Innovation and Effective Teachers Act, part of a package intended to overhaul No...
View ArticleNewswire: January 8, 2013
Vol. 15, No. 1 Happy New Year! The first half of the first month of 2013 is not even finished and already the momentum — and opposition — around education reform is building. To wit: STATE POLICY...
View ArticleA Reformer’s Course of Action For the Next Generation of ESEA
Defining the Needs of Substantive Education Reform in Federal Programs By Jeanne Allen, Alison Consoletti and Kara Kerwin Policy Perspective July 2013 PDF version Despite the lack of consensus on just...
View ArticleGetting Education Bills to the Finish Line
CER interns had the chance to tune in to a Brookings Institution webinar entitled “Getting Education Bills to the Finish Line”, and listened to former Capitol Hill staffers tackle the issue of...
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