- Reporting weak links
in the NRP and No Child Left Behind Act: Is
such reporting 'unpatriotic'?
- The NRP Report: What
went wrong? And what's this about SSR doesn't
work?
- NCLB is sinking fast.
While some think it's because of false hopes,
others think there's a false foundation: There
was no education miracle in Texas. How
much did Rod Paige know and when did he know
it?
- Are 'whole language'
folks the only ones upset by the NRP report? Try
long-time researcher Dick Allington.
- The Bush/McGraw-Hill
family ties that help bind Washington
to testing.
- If 'carbo-loading' works
for athletes, could it work for test takers?
Desperately seeking higher scores, Virginia
tries higher carbs and Gadsden, Alabama,
nixes kindergarten naps.
- Long-time education
writer and teacher Susan Ohanian takes
stock of NCLB in "Bush
Flunks Schools" in The Nation.
- What
if the NCLB research is as flawed as
the intelligence was on those "weapons
of mass destruction"?
- The connection
between learning to read and learning to
ride a horse: the
advantage of owning a horse or book,
and why those who have the fewest books are
left behind.
- A "national
superintendent of the year"
finalist, William J. Mathis examines
NCLB and finds that beneath the noble promises
lurks a price-tag well beyond the range of
the 10 states he studied. Here online in
the May 2003 issue of Phi Delta
Kappan is his study, "No
Child Left Behind: Costs and Benefits."
- POVERTY— the five-ton
elephant in the classroom that nearly
always leaves its children behind, but
NCLB ignores.
- The now famous but
insightful parody called "No
Dentist Left Behind."
- What
if the professional author of the test's
essay can't
answer the questions on the state (TX)
test?
- In light of the NRP report,
what recourse does a teacher or district
have to
resist the mandates?
- Web
site devoted to repeal of the
'No Child Left Behind Act.'
- A
detailed accounting of corruption and incompetence
at Reading First, including the Inspector
General's scathing report.
- There would be no NCLB
Act were it not for the Nation
at Risk report. Here's
a sobering look at Risk after
20 years of reform.
- Heard
about the 'Texas miracle' —
a "zero" dropout rate in Houston
high schools? Sorry, not a miracle;
just Enron behavior, number changing, and "incentives" that
brought new meaning to the term "education
mandates." What
nosey reporters (and a whistle-blowing vice
principal) found.
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- Wrestling with the
mandatory "tutoring" element
in NCLB: Will
changing the teacher, change the scores
or is it just after-school money-grabbing?
- In
a massive government study, Charter
School students lag behind Public School
in reading and math.
- The man who had
President Bush's ear on school accountability
has been a lobbyist for some of America's
biggest testing and education publishers: Atty.
and lobbyist Sandy Kress.
- It took one gutsy educator
in Georgia almost two years,
but she (and the U.S. Dept. of Ed.'s
Inspector General) brought Reading First
bosses to their knees in
a major mess that smelled like FEMA
in New Orleans. Follow
the investigation through
nine pages of national news media coverage.
- There was
a $20 million precursor to NCLB that forecast
the future of the latter. Intended to
cure children's obesity woes by fixing
their classroom diets and
curriculum, it failed because no one
bothered to fix the home where a child
spends 7,800 hours a year (vs. 900 in class).
- In 2007, the U. S.
Department of Ed. found an astounding range
of disparity
in state standards for competency via
testing. Thus a child who is a competent
reader in Missouri is going to be failing
in South Carolina.
- More and more teachers
(young and old) are resigning
out of frustration with NCLB's testing and its
anti-child measures. Thus NCLB is depriving
at-risk students of both veteran and
fresh-blood faculty.
- A veteran Ohio principal
at an "excellent" middle school
offers a public
apology for all that his students
missed while pursuing higher test scores
for the school.
- There was no more ardent
booster of standardized testing, charter
schools, or No Child Left Behind than Dr.
Diane Ravitch, the former Bush
I advisor at the Department of Education.
The verb here is "was." Not any more. She
now fully admits to being mistaken and
badly misled, as described in The
New York Times article
of Mar. 2, 2010: Scholars
School Reform U-Turn
Shakes Up Debate.
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