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NCLB identifies wrong target for students with disabilities
Erin Dillon’s short piece yesterday, Labeled: The Students Behind NCLB’s ‘Disabilities’ Designation, is a response to criticism of NCLB as unrealistic about the achievement of students with disabilities. Dillon argues that because approximately half of students with disabilities are identified as having learning disabilities, and because of the overrepresentation of minorities in special education, the critics […]
NCLB reauthorization blog at Ed Week
There’s a new Ed Week blog: David Hoff’s NCLB: Act II, entirely about reauthorization. In many ways, this is a wise focus for an education beat blog. Several other blogs have died out when key reporters have moved on, as they typically do after some (relatively short)period of time. Having a blog with a relatively clear […]
Read the law, Inky editorial board!
So the Philly Inquirer’s editorial board thinks No Child Left Behind should include graduation rates? (HT: NEA’s NCLB blog.) AYP already does: … [AYP] includes graduation rates for public secondary school students (defined as the percentage of students who graduate from secondary school with a regular diploma in the standard number of years) … (1111(B)(2)(c)(vi)) Wince. Wince. […]
Writing or faux writing?
Recent events have brought home the fact that the Florida Department of Education expanded the performance writing exam for students in 4th, 8th, and 10th grades so that they have to answer compartmentalized grammar questions that I thought were obsolete: identify the correctly-puncuated sentence, fill in the blank with the right word, etc. As my […]
Appearing in Chicago on education policy…
On August 3 and 4, I’m talking in the Hyatt McCormick Place Convention Center at YearlyKos, the convention sprout of partisan DailyKos, on the panels Education Uprising: Education for Democracy (Friday afternoon, 1-2:15) and Rethinking Educational Accountability (Saturday morning, 10:30-11:30). Both are substantially the logistical work of teacherken, a fellow Haverford College graduate, an active […]