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Educators: If You Enjoy NCLB, You'll Love the McCain/Palin Plan!

Gary Stager | Posted 09.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, John McCain, Education Reform, Nclb, Sarah Palin, Presidential Politics, Phonics, Politics News
Gary Stager

Although much of what Sarah Palin says in her education plan for Alaska, reads like an undergraduate homework assignment, she does express support for something called ABC Schools.

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Illuminating Public Schools' Possibilities: "Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way"

Dan Brown | Posted 07.29.2008 | Living

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Aft, Education, Urban Education, Nclb, High-Stakes Testing, Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way, Teachers, Education Reform, Nea, Brian Schultz, Project Citizen, Living News
Dan Brown

What happens when a teacher decides to disregard the canned standards and the stacks of test prep materials? Do the students wallow in ignorance, cheated out of a proper education by an "activist" teacher?

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Public Schools Get a Boost Today: AFT Elects President Randi Weingarten

Dan Brown | Posted 07.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Public Schools, No Child Left Behind, Class Size, Edward McElroy, American Federation of Teachers, New Teachers, Public Education Reform, Randi Weingarten, United Federation of Teachers, Nclb, Standardized Testing, Aft, Uft, Teachers, Public Education, High Stakes Testing, Living News
Dan Brown

Today in Chicago, Randi Weingarten was elected president of the American Federation of Teachers, a union with a membership of over 1.4 million. Our c...

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HBO Raises the Bar Again With Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card

Dan Brown | Posted 06.20.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Public Schools, Susan Raymond, No Child Left Behind, Hbo, School Reform, Standardized Testing, Alan Raymond, Hard Times at Douglass High, Nclb, Entertainment News
Dan Brown

Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond are too smart to offer up any magic bullets. Their fascinating documentary puts viewers inside Baltimore's Frederick Douglass High School for a full school year.

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A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education

Pedro Noguera | Posted 06.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Early Education, Leaders, Education, Policy, School Improvement, Health, Nclb, Home News
Pedro Noguera

A new task force of national policy experts with diverse religious and political affiliations, in public policy fields including education, social wel...

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Obama's Education Speech Fired Me Up

Dan Brown | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, No Child Left Behind, Mentors, Education, Student Achievement, Teacher Residency Programs, Nclb, Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts, Standardized Testing, High-Stakes Testing, Barack Obama, Denver Post, Politics News
Dan Brown

Last week in Colorado, Barack Obama gave a truly incisive speech on improving education in America.

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The Mounting Collateral Damage of No Child Left Behind

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Damage, Teacher Morale, Nclb, Education Policy, No Child Left Behind, Politics News
Gerald Bracey

Those who are trying to stoke the presidential candidates' interest in education as an election issue aren't having much luck. Not that the public would be paying attention anyway.

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I've Been Nominated for Education Blogger of the Year -- Thank You Huffington Post!

Dan Brown | Posted 05.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Ed in 08 Blogger Summit, No Child Left Behind, Public Schools, Education, Nclb, Ed in '08, Blogging, Media News
Dan Brown

It's been my great pleasure to help to stir the pot about issues affecting students, teachers, and families in America.

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Memo to Democrats: Talk More About Education

Dan Brown | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Democratic Primary, Education, Barack Obama, No Child Left Behind, George W. Bush, Arizona, Democrats, George Miller, High Stakes Testing, Nclb, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Politics News
Dan Brown

McCain's threadbare talking points on education offer prime ammunition for Democrats to help define his candidacy as Bush's third term.

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The Surge Against First Graders

Gary Stager | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reading First, John Negroponte, Rod Paige, Literacy, Education, Margaret Spellings, Nclb, Politics News
Gary Stager

When overseas colleagues criticize American foreign policy, I've been known to respond, "If you like Iraq, you'll love what the Bush administration has done to public education."

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Chew on This

Gerald Bracey | Posted 04.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Carl Chew, Carl Chew Wasl, Nclb, No Child Left Behind, Wasl, Living News
Gerald Bracey

The body count from No Child Left Behind grows daily and one wonders when the perpetrators will be called to account. In a decent nation, the larger society holds the government accountable.

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School Accountability: NYC Sets the Tone, For Better or Worse

Dan Brown | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: No Child Left Behind, New York City Public Schools, Education, Department of Education, Randi Weingarten, United Federation of Teachers, Michael Bloomberg, Nclb, Joel Klein, Standardized Testing, School Accountability, Uft, High-Stakes Testing, Teachers, Public Education, New York City Education, Politics News
Dan Brown

Life and education are too complicated for single letter grades. A smarter, nuanced alternative is within New York's grasp.

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The Wire's Final Season and the Story Everyone Missed

David Simon | Posted 03.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Drug War, No Child Left Behind, Drugs, War on Drugs, Media, Press, David Simon, David Simon on the Wire, Newspaper Industry, The Wire, Media Consolidation, David Simon on the Wire's Final Season, The Wire's Final Season, Baltimore Sun, Brian Lowry, Nclb, Media News
David Simon

Let's happily concede that all criticism stands and get to the real fun: something happened in season five of The Wire when almost no one -- among the working press, at least -- was looking.

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Bill Clinton: Fix Bush Education Law

AP | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Bill Clinton, Democratic Primary, Edward Kennedy, Ted Kennedy Endorses Obama, Hillary Clinton 2008, No Child Left Behind, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Election, Nclb, Barack Obama, Politics News

TEMPE, Ariz. — Former President Clinton said that if his wife is elected president she would radically change the "No Child Left Behind Act," wh...

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All Children Moving Ahead

Scott Page | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Standardized Testing, Improving Education, Sats, Nclb, No Child Left Behind, No Child Left Behind Reauthorization, Politics News
Scott Page

The truth is that the ability of the next generation of Americans to meet the environmental, economic, and social challenges of the day won't rest on how well they individually did on their SATs.

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Senator Kennedy, No Child Left Behind, and the Dropout Crisis

Dan Brown | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Class Size, Education, Edward Kennedy, No Child Left Behind, Nclb, George W. Bush, Dropout Epidemic, George Miller, Ted Kennedy, Politics News
Dan Brown

It's politically inconvenient for Washington to recognize that some high schools may tacitly encourage failing students to drop out so that the schools' test scores don't have to include their low marks.

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No Child Left Alone

Bruce Kluger | Posted 12.19.2007 | Living

Read More: Standardized Testing, Education, Public Education Reform, Public Education, Nclb, No Child Left Behind, Living News
Bruce Kluger

As we earnestly try to fix what's broken, we are, in the process, turning an entire generation of children into a giant flock of canaries in the coal mine.

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Literacy

Gerald Bracey | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: PIRLS, Race Gap, Education, Department of Education, No Child Left Behind, Education Gap, Margaret Spellings, Public Education, Nclb, Naep, Global Competitiveness Report, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, World Economic Forum, Politics News
Gerald Bracey

Is the sound you just heard the Department of Education building a massive wall against reality? If we're making progress, how come it doesn't show up on the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study?

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No Crony Left Behind

Bill Maher | Posted 11.01.2007 | Politics

Read More: Neil Bush, McGraw Hill Testing, No Child Left Behind, Education, Bush Education, McGraw Hill, Nclb, Politics News
Bill Maher

New Rule: In the next fifteen months, President Bush has to perform at least one act that doesn't make money for someone he knows.

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How to Stem the Teacher Attrition Crisis

Dan Brown | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, No Child Left Behind, Class Size, Teacher Union, Education, Department of Education, United Federation of Teachers, Nclb, City Council, Rookie Teacher, Student Loans, Teacher, New York City, Bronx, Politics News
Dan Brown

New drafts of No Child Left Behind could contain the best ideas in education history, but they won't work in the long run unless we address the biggest crisis in our schools.

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Bob Herbert Gets High-Stakes Testing Right

Dan Brown | Posted 10.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, No Child Left Behind, Education, Nclb, Bob Herbert, Fordham Institute, New York Times, High Stakes Testing, Politics News
Dan Brown

The current culture of living and dying with the all-important test has thus led to widespread bar-lowering, and obsessing.

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Can Public Schools Fix the Achievement Gap? Yes, But They Won't

Peter Sacks | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Elitist Schools, Public Education, How to Fix Public Schools, Achievement Gap, NCLB, Politics News
Peter Sacks

As currently structured, the American education system is organized to serve elite interests at the expense of children and families at the bottom.

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