{"id":1063,"date":"2007-09-10T09:20:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T13:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2007-09-10T09:20:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T13:20:59","slug":"nclb-reauthorization-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1063","title":{"rendered":"NCLB reauthorization hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since he’s a former Hill staffer, I’d pay attention to  Alexander Russo’s comments<\/a> on today’s House NCLB reauthorization hearing.<\/p>\n

By having everyone speak, the committee pretty much ensures a certain amount of cacaphony. And by putting Kati Haycock — one of the draft’s most vocal critics — off in the teacher quality corner, the committee sends a clear message that it doesn’t like being called out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m more confident of Russo’s first conclusion than his second one: NEA and AFT’s representatives are on the teaching\/school leadership (not teacher quality) panel. While analyzing a witness list is akin to reading tea leaves a la old-style Kremlinology, maybe that’s appropriate for a law whose numerical goals seem awfully Five-Year-Plannish. <\/p>\n

Update<\/em>: podcast available<\/a>! (Thank my poor ergonomic awareness last week for this one…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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