The first round of eleven NCLB waiver applicants will soon learn whether their submissions are good enough to earn the Department of Education’s (ED) stamp of approval. When that happens, we will lose something very important to our education system…
“It’s alive! It’s alive!” No, I’m not talking about Frankenstein’s monster, but “adequate yearly progress,” or AYP. For all the hullabaloo about Obama’s ESEA flexibility package, what is overlooked is how much of No Child Left Behind’s original accountability framework…
Rewarding schools for making progress may be a reasonable basis for accountability, but few would argue that mere “progress” is enough if it leaves kids stranded short of college readiness. That is a brief summary of the current debate about…
Amid all of the calls for waiver relief from some of the most difficult requirements of NCLB, I think we may need to take a step back and remember the good that has actually come from the law. Take AYP,…
Friday, July 28th was the day the Tennessee Department of Education released the new list of schools in improvement, corrective action, and restructuring based on school year 2010-2011 data. As executive director of federal programs and grants for a diverse,…
The U.S. Department of Education late last week granted Idaho leeway to suspend its “adequate yearly progress” targets for next school year. In a blog post on the state education department’s website, Superintendent of Public Education Tom Luna said the…
Recently, our colleague David DeSchryver quipped that, barring the rapture, the only way schools and districts were going to dosey-doe around NCLB’s 2013-14 deadline for all students to be proficient would be for U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan…
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