NEA president on state of No Child Left Behind, education reform

In Child Education | on April, 17, 2015 | by | 0 Comments

News from Minnesota Public Radio News: Listen NEA president on state of No Child Left Behind 13min 57sec Lily Eskelsen Garcia: President, NEA The nation’s main education law, which for more than a decade has been known as N……………. continues on Minnesota Public Radio News >>> Read the full article . Related News: . News [...]

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Bipartisan No Child Left Behind Rewrite Clears Senate Education Committee

In Child Education | on April, 17, 2015 | by | 0 Comments

News from U.S. News & World Report: Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. listens to testimony in January during a Senate education committee hearing on No Child Left Behind. The committee on Thursday unanimously passed a bipartisan bill to update the education law. Clearing its first big hurdle, a bipartisan bill to overhaul the long-outdated No Child [...]

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Belton High School assistant principal leaves skiing behind for education

In High School Education | on February, 22, 2015 | by | 0 Comments

Belton High School assistant principal leaves skiing behind for educationNews from The Killeen Daily Herald: BELTON — It’s no surprise to Austin Crawley that he ended up with a career in education. He was raised in a family of educators. His grandfather was an English teacher at the college-level, his grandmother had been a first-grade [...]

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Arne Duncan to call for No Child Left Behind revamp

In Child Education | on January, 10, 2015 | by | 0 Comments

News from Politico: POLITICO Pro By Caitlin Emma 1/8/15 7:53 PM EST Education Secretary Arne Duncan. | AP Photo Education Secretary Arne Duncan will call for repealing and replacing the nation’s landmark federal education law, No Child Left Behind, joining Republicans in Congress in pushing what could be the most significant rewrite of federal education [...]

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Oklahoma loses ‘No Child Left Behind’ waiver after scrapping Common Core …

In Child Education | on August, 29, 2014 | by | 0 Comments

News from kfor.com: UPDATED:  Janet Barresi, State Superintendent of schools, announced that the state of Oklahoma will not be losing any federal dollars. Instead, the state will have adjust the way the funds are spent. Barresi confirmed that the total amount coming to Oklahoma from USDE is $ 372,841,126. Barresi has ordered districts to start [...]

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Utah education leaders debate return to No Child Left Behind

In Child Education | on June, 07, 2014 | by | 0 Comments

News from Salt Lake Tribune: State education leaders are considering abandoning Utah’s waiver to the No Child Left Behind law, partly as a statement about federal interference in Utah schools. The state school board spent more than an hour Friday debating whether to ask the federal government for an extension of the waiver for 2015. [...]

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Indiana Board of Education meets to discuss No Child Left Behind waiver

In Child Education | on May, 13, 2014 | by | 0 Comments

News from WTHR: INDIANAPOLIS – The State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction are once again at odds with one another. This time, the bottom line could cost Indiana school districts hundreds of millions of dollars. The U.S. Department of Education has already put Indiana on notice. The state needs to [...]

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Kansas education officials seeking extension of No Child Left Behind waiver

In Child Education | on January, 18, 2014 | by | 0 Comments

News from Kansas.com: Kansas education officials say they plan to ask for an extension of their waiver from the No Child Left Behind law, saying they are no closer to installing a new teacher evaluation system than they were last summer. Kansas was put on notice in August that it is at “high risk” of [...]

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Why Black College Football Players Fall Behind In Education

In College Education | on December, 19, 2013 | by | 0 Comments

Why Black College Football Players Fall Behind In EducationNews from NPR: Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I’m Michel Martin. We’re going to spend some time today talking about some important [...]

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No Child Left Behind Anniversary: Collateral Damage is Making Education …

In Child Education | on January, 09, 2013 | by | 0 Comments

No Child Left Behind Anniversary: Collateral Damage is Making Education …News from PolicyMic: No Child Left Behind Anniversary Collateral Damage is Making Education System Worse January 8, 2013 is the 11th anniversary of the No Child Left Behind Act(NCLB). Its central idea is to demand accountability for all government-funded schools and to use standardized testing [...]

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