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NEA's ESEA/NCLB Update
Get the important news F-A-S-T ! This periodic update is available to members by "joining the newsletter" at the bottom of the page. When you have questions about ESEA/NCLB, ask TEA.
Archives:
NCLB Query Master - November 2, 2007
NCLB Query Master - November 9, 2007
NCLB Query Master - October 26, 2007
NCLB Query Master - October 19, 2007
NCLB Query Master - October 4, 2007
ESEA/NCLB Newsletter: Issue 45 - November 20, 2007
  Week of December 3, 2007
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WASHINGTON -- Five years after President Bush's signature education program became law, No Child Left Behind is at a crossroads [McClatchy Washington Bureau]
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NCLB's staunchest supporters will argue that NCLB opponents and ignorant media types are pushing the notion that NCLB is leaving gifted students behind [AFT: Let's Get It Right]
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Who or what is to blame for lagging performance by minority students? Richard Rothstein and Russlynn Ali continue their weeklong debate on the achievement gap. [Los Angeles Times]
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The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) today released the 2006 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS). [Department of Education]
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More than four out of every 10 public high schools in Michigan -- including some of the highest-performing schools in the state -- fail to meet the goals of NCLB. [Detroit Free Press]
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Paterson is one of a half-dozen school districts around the country that have embraced this confrontational approach, known here as SchoolStat... [New York Times]
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Some scholars are joining parent advocates in questioning whether the education law No Child Left Behind, with its goal of universal academic proficiency, has had the unintended consequence of diverting resources and attention from the gifted [The Seattle Times]
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and the Digital Divide with Barack Obama and John Edwards [PBS]
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Test results released Wednesday showed U.S. students, who took the test last year, scored about the same as they did in 2001, the last time the test was given - despite an increased emphasis on reading under the No Child Left Behind law. [US News & World Report]
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Video: Save Time Searching for NCLB information -- Learn More
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There was a lot more activity from Department of Education after Thanksgiving. Perhaps the most important document that ED released on November 19, 2007 was a letter to Chief State School Officers outlining amendments to Accountability Workbooks for School Year 2007-2008 in light of NCLB Reauthorization. The letter discusses how States should propose amendments in their accountability workbooks, implement regulations on Modified Academic Achievement Standards, as well as Eligibility for Transition
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Flexibility in the 2007-08 School Year.
On November 30, ED released Title II (Part A) Monitoring Reports for 2007-2010 for North Dakota, Rhode Island and Tennessee. ED approved Montana's standards and assessments system, while assigned Washington DC's assessment system as Approval Expected.
There were new letters and documents regarding Growth Models released last week, as well. Although these letters appeared on ED's website last week, they were actually released some
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months ago. These include ED's decision letter to Ohio (August 15, 2007) accepting its growth model proposal to be part of the ED's pilot growth model project, as well as an addendum to it's proposal. ED's letter to Pennsylvania rejected their growth model proposal in this April 5, 2007 letter.
On November 15, 2007, Secretary Spellings sent a letter to Rep. George Miller highlighting the Final Report on National Assessment of Title I released last week. As part of NCLB (Section
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New Documents
16 tracked this week
26 tracked this month
1531 tracked this year
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Policy Guidance
State By State
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2007-11-27: State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, Volume II-Teacher Quality under NCLB: Interim Report (2007) draws on data from the 2004-05 data collection cycles of two federally funded studies -- the Study of State Implementation of Accountability and Teacher Quality Under NCLB (SSI-NCLB) and the National Longitudinal Study of NCLB (NLS-NCLB) -- to describe patterns in state, district, and school implementation of Title I and Title II provisions concerning teacher quality, professional development, and paraprofessionals.
Executive Summary
Complete Report
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2007-11-28: "English Language Proficiency Assessment in the Nation: Current Status and Future Practice,": This 197 page report released by U.C. Davis School of Education is a collaboration by 32 experts on testing and ELLs to provide an overview of testing for English proficiency under NCLB. Jamal Abedi, a professor of education at the University of California, Davis, is the editor of the report.
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ESEA/NCLB Information
You may be aware that there is a new federal law which will have a great impact on you, the "No Child Left Behind" act, which is also the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. TEA and NEA are working hard on behalf of students, teachers, paraprofessionals, and schools to change NCLB/ESEA to make it a better law, to inform members about its provisions, and to influence state decisions about it. Members who have questions and concerns about ESEA/NCLB should contact a member of the TEA NCLB/ESEA Work Group with their specific questions about:
Accountability: Susan Dalton at sdalton@tea.nea.org
Teacher and Paraprofessional Quality: Susan Dalton at sdalton@tea.nea.org
Funding: Melissa Brown at mbrown@tea.nea.org
For more information, please visit the Tennessee State Department of Education's Web site or NEA's Web site.
Union Influence on NCLB
Join us Thursday, April 19, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., Eastern time, for a live Web chat on how the nation's top two teachers' unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, are trying to influence the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act.
Guests:
Joel Packer, chief NCLB lobbyist for the National Education Association; and
Antonia Cortese, the executive vice president for the American Federation of Teachers.
Transcript available at:
http://www.edweek.org/chat/transcript_04_19_2007.html
New ESEA Bills
Joint Statement on NCLB
NCLB/ESEA Action Guide: NEA's Education Policy And Practice just created this important tool for promoting NEA's proposals for overhauling NCLB through reauthorization. The Action Guide includes one pagers on key issues, facts and statistics to bolster your arguments, charts on funding gaps, suggestions on what you and your local can do to support NEA's campaign, and resolutions for a school board and state legislature.
NEA
Tennessee State Department of Education
Praxis Test Administration Update (7-3-03)
Paraprofessional Requirements 1
Paraprofessional Requirements 2
What TEA & NEA Are doing
ESEA Update
Options Available to Tennessee Teachers
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