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No Child Left Behind

Published: 03/16/11

'No Child Left Behind' Overhaul Deadline: September 2011? [VIDEO]

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Published: 03/14/11

Obama Urges Reforms to 'No Child Left Behind'

By Christopher Weber - Politics Daily

During a speech Monday at a Virginia school, President Obama outlined his plan to reboot George W. Bush's "No Child Left Behind" education law, saying he wants to overhaul in place before the start of the next school year. The president's appearance at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington was the latest stop in a campaign to give more education-reform power to state and local governments and improve student performance, The Hill reported Monday. Obama told students that the U.S. economy depends on young people getting an education that leads to a competitive career. "Over the next 10 years, ...

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Published: 01/17/11

State of the Union: Obama Faces New Challenges in Reforming Education

By Julie Moos - Politics Daily

When President Obama enters the House chamber to deliver his third State of the Union address Jan. 25, he will bring with him a track record of at least limited success in reforming education, a topic he's expected to feature in his remarks. Obama has fulfilled or made progress on most of his campaign promises to improve the nation's schools, based on tracking done by PolitiFact.com, which monitors and fact checks political claims. According to PolitiFact's numbers, Obama has kept 11 of his 48 education promises, compromised on four of them, and has made progress on another 24. He has broken ...

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Published: 12/1/10

Cheating in Atlanta Schools May Lead to Criminal Charges

By Dana Chivvis - AOL News

(Dec. 1) -- An investigation into accusations of widespread cheating on standardized tests in 58 Atlanta public schools appears to be headed toward criminal prosecutions, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Paul Howard, the district attorney for Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, has named former State Attorney General Mike Bowers and former DeKalb County District Attorney Bob Wilson as special assistant district attorneys in the case. The criminal case's outcome might mean some school administrators will go to prison for lying to investigators or for the destruction or alteration ...

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Published: 10/18/10

Opinion: Why Education Reforms Keep Failing

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(Oct. 18) -- In 1966, the U.S. Office of Education issued the most comprehensive study on education ever produced by the federal government. Known as the Coleman Report, it was commissioned by bureaucrats in the educational establishment in hopes of making the case for ever-greater educational expenditures if perceived inequalities in education could be documented. To the consternation of the mortified bureaucrats who commissioned it, the Coleman Report concluded that "schools are not very important in determining student achievement. Families, and to a lesser extent peers [are] the primary ...

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Published: 10/12/10

Atlanta Schools Investigated in Cheating Scandal

By Mara Gay - AOL News

(Oct. 12) -- Atlanta's public schools are under investigation for allegations that educators manipulated standardized tests to inflate students' scores. Statewide in Georgia last year, an alarmingly high 250,000 wrong answers were corrected using an eraser on an exam that determines whether children are meeting the requirements mandated by the federal No Child Left Behind Act, according to NPR. Atlanta had the largest share of those suspicious exams, prompting Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to launch an investigation to determine whether educators in the district illegally tampered with the ...

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Published: 08/9/10

Opinion: Here's a No-Cost Way to Improve Education

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(Aug. 9) -- If you follow the recent news about education, you might think providing children with a quality education is all about money. There are stories about massive budget cuts and teachers' salaries, studies about the efficacy of charter schools and per-student-spending, and revolts over the increasing amount of private dollars that are supporting education. But in the midst of number-crunching, everyone has forgotten about one of the most cost-effective resources available: parents. Engaging parents in schools is free; it just requires a receptive environment and structures in place ...

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Published: 07/27/10

Eighteen States, D.C. are Finalists for Race to the Top Education Money

By Emmarie Huetteman - Politics Daily

Eighteen states and the District of Columbia will vie for $3.4 billion as finalists in the second round of Race to the Top, the Obama administration's competitive program to encourage states to implement its education reform initiatives. Whittled down from 36 applications, the finalists in round two include all of the previous finalists minus Delaware and Tennessee, winners of the last round of grants. Arizona, California, Hawaii, Maryland, and New Jersey are newcomers to the finals in this round of Race to the Top. In a speech Tuesday at the National Press Club, Education Secretary Arne ...

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Published: 07/2/10

Reader Feedback: Education 'Reform' Leaves Learning Behind

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(July 2) -- Diane Ravitch is absolutely correct when she says, "Schools 'fail' because they serve large numbers of students who are non-English speakers; live in poverty; or are homeless, transient or disabled. The staff in schools with disproportionate numbers of low-performing students may be doing a heroic job. Everyone should be individually evaluated, not subject to collective punishment." ("Don't Close Schools, Fix Them") As a former teacher and now children's book author, I am appalled by the focus on the "Race to the Top" -- the sanctification of test scores and ignorance of the ...

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Published: 06/29/10

Opinion: Don't Close Schools, Fix Them

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(June 29) -- In a four-part series on AOL News last week, Dana Chivvis told the story of a small high school in Brooklyn that is slated to be closed for poor performance. Its graduation rates and test scores are low, yet district officials never gave the school the facilities or resources to improve. Today, federal policy requires districts to take harsh action against "failing" schools. The No Child Left Behind law, adopted in 2002, says that officials must close them; fire all or half their staff; or hand control over to the state, to private charters or to private management. Secretary of ...

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