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ESEA/NCLB Newsletter: Issue 45 - November 20, 2007

 

 

Week of December 3, 2007

WASHINGTON -- Five years after President Bush's signature education program became law, No Child Left Behind is at a crossroads [McClatchy Washington Bureau]

 

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]

 

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]

 

 

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) today released the 2006 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS). [Department of Education]

 

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]

 

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]

 

 

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]

 

and the Digital Divide with Barack Obama and John Edwards [PBS]

 

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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Editor's Comments

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

  

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

  

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

New Documents


16 tracked this week

26 tracked this month

1531 tracked this year

Policy Guidance

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