'No Child Left Behind' Top Education Issue
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President Bush asked for it. Sen. John Kerry voted for it. Both candidates now find their education agendas driven by the No Child Left Behind law.
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A new report for the first time measures the extent of the differences in academic standards from state to state.
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The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation launched a $17 million effort yesterday to improve teacher education and steer highly qualified teachers to high-poverty and struggling schools.
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President Bush is beginning his push to require high school seniors to take the math and reading tests now required of younger students under the No Child Left Behind law, the most ambitious item on the president's slate of second-term education proposals.
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A review of primary education in England says the system is "preoccupied" with testing and national standards.
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CRAWFORD, Texas - In a back-to-school message, President Bush says that while many public schools aren't making the grade, he should get high marks from voters for the No Child Left Behind Act.   "We are leaving behind the broken system that shuffled children from grade to grade, even when they were not learning the basics," Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address...
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(InfoWorld) - Mountain View, Calif. - Speaking at Microsoft's Silicon Valley offices, U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings on Tuesday suggested allowing willing specialists to teach math and science part-time to stem the skills gap in these fields. But roadblocks, such as state regulations and teachers unions, have prevented this, Spellings said during a Churchill Club event. "It's not by accident that there are all these barriers," Spellings said. Asked by an audience member what was being done attract new teachers to the profession, Spellings presented a dire prognosis. "The short answer is we're not doing enough to attract our best and brightest to the profession," she said. "I believe that we make it so difficult. There are so many barriers to entry into this profession, itâs absurd," Spellings said. An approach such as having experts teach math or science just from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday and Friday is not allowable under regulations that require teachers to be in school 185 days a year, she said. Instead, math and science are being taught by teachers who do not specialize in those fields, Spellings said. She touted the federal No Child Left Behind law as bringing up test scores but emphasized that much more needs to be done to improve education for students, particularly minority students. The needs of high school and middle school students also must be addressed, Spelling said. One audience member cited the issue of disruptive students that prevent education of the entire class. But Spellings said issues of discipline are reserved for the state and local governments rather than being a federal issue. "We have to figure all this out in ways that make sense," Spellings said.Â  Surprisingly, Spellings agreed with the statement, "It takes a village," to meet the educational needs of children, which was noted by an audience member identifying herself as a math teacher at a low-income charter school in downtown San Jose, Calif. This statement was coined by Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton in a speech addressing the needs of children when she was first lady. Clinton's full statement was, "It takes a village to raise a child." "It does take a village," Spellings said.
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; At first glance, President Bush seems well-positioned to expand his No Child Left Behind program of academic standards, testing and accountability into the nation's high schools.
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Beaufort County School District officials think all county schools that receive federal money based on the number of low-income students enrolled will meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act this year.
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The Christian Science Monitor - At the crossroads of education and civil rights, a new signpost has been planted by the US Supreme Court, leaving school districts that have been striving for integration wondering which way to proceed.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton criticized the No Child Left Behind education program Saturday, saying its emphasis on testing puts American students in danger of losing their creative edge.
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A state where charter schools have been growing fast - and running into troubles - is now debating a new approach
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Too many school leavers  cannot  read, write or add up properly, large businesses complain.
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By Gregory Ramey Cox News Service  DAYTON, Ohio -- Many of our children have just started a new school year, and parents are trying to figure out how to help their students be academically successful.
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President Bush urged lawmakers yesterday to renew No Child Left Behind, his landmark education initiative, but one of his biggest political liabilities in achieving that goal comes from an unlikely source: his former aides.
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High-priced tutors and college counselors have entered into the debate over whether there is a crisis in the education of boys.
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Thinking small may be the next big thing at American high schools. From Oregon to New York, school districts are scaling down to combat problems that are very big indeed: high dropout rates, sinking test scores and low attendance.