Feds call for limits on testing in schools
The Obama administration will issue guidance to reduce the amount of standardized testing schools put kids through for accountability.
NCLB
Senate passes ESEA reauthorization; arts are core
The Senate approved S.1177, the Every Child Achieves Act, 81-17, and the narrowing of the curriculum under NCLB inches toward an end.
We're judging schools wrong: IL state supt.
The new IL state supt. of education spoke candidly to the <em>Daily Herald</em> about what school leaders need to do to help kids succeed in school.
Three faces of the PARCC tests in 2014-15
Teachers have to give students the PARCC tests, students are protesting about the PARCC tests, and even teachers have a few issues.
Who runs schools: board, legislature, governor?
We wonder sometimes who runs public schools anymore, now that politicians are fighting with educators over how our students should be taught.
Ohio & Md. move to limit testing
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 in hot water over cancelled science tests
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 cancels state-mandated science tests
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.
Wash. becomes 1st state to lose its NCLB waiver
Washington's NCLB waiver was rescinded last week, a move that seems to signal a return to enforcing a federal law everyone calls a failure.
College readiness likened to NCLB's '100% proficiency'
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?