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February 19th, 2012
In today’s Fall River Wicked Local: “Guest Opinion: No Child Left Behind waiver gives Mass. school districts flexibility” by US Senator John Kerry. Here’s an excerpt: There’s no better place than Massachusetts to start a national discussion about how to adapt our education system so Americans can compete in the global economy. Massachusetts [...] January 22nd, 2012
The Oklahoman featured this article by Megan Rolland earlier this week: “Oklahoma Seeks Waiver of Federal Education Reforms” Here’s an excerpt: [State schools Superintendent Janet Barresi said] “They are now going to be able to focus on each individual child, children that are struggling up to gifted and talented children, because the focus will [...] December 19th, 2011
US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recently stated that the ten-year-old No Child Left Behind act is broken: Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has all but given up on the program, telling the Associated Press, “Whether it’s 50 percent, 80 percent or 100 percent of schools being incorrectly labeled as failing, one thing is [...] December 17th, 2011
Excerpt from the Washington Post, Dec 15th, 2011 — opinion piece titled Closing the achievement gap, but at gifted students’ expense, by Michael J. Petrilli and and Frederick M. Hess In September [2011], the president offered states and school districts flexibility around onerous provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act — linked [...] |
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