Tag: NCLB

The Obama administration will issue guidance to reduce the amount of standardized testing schools put kids through for accountability.

The Senate approved S.1177, the Every Child Achieves Act, 81-17, and the narrowing of the curriculum under NCLB inches toward an end.

The new IL state supt. of education spoke candidly to the Daily Herald about what school leaders need to do to help kids succeed in school.

Teachers have to give students the PARCC tests, students are protesting about the PARCC tests, and even teachers have a few issues.

We wonder sometimes who runs public schools anymore, now that politicians are fighting with educators over how our students should be taught.

Ohio and Md. lawmakers have taken different paths to a solution, but both have the same goal: reduce testing that only serves to satisfy federal law.

IL's decision to abandon its current science test for students in 4th, 7th, and 11th grade has put the state in hot water with the feds.

IL doesn't plan to give 4th, 7th, and 11th graders the state- and federally-mandated science test. Negotiations are ongoing, but this is interesting.

Washington's NCLB waiver was rescinded last week, a move that seems to signal a return to enforcing a federal law everyone calls a failure.

States are cutting back on the college-ready part of the Common Core and trying to emphasize career readiness as well. Is this a wise path for schools to follow?