on three senators and what they have proposed to fix the NCLB bill. The article states that the senators would like to see teachers be removed form a low performing school is scores have not improved after a five year period.

out on the NCLB bill is out. This report looks only at the Chicago Publics School Students in the fifth through eight grade. They say that at any given point of time they have reason to believe 25,000 students in the school district are left behind.

The students in the middle made the most gain, why the people at the lowest end made no gain or had a decline in performance.

on the state moving over to the growth model to calculate student achievement.

has approved the pilot growth model way of calculating student achievement to the states of Alaska and Arizona.

has proposed a more nuanced way of evaluating students under the NCLB bill. The new plan will differentiate between schools that are close to meeting state math, reading and science standards and those that are chronic under performers.

in the USA are either in restructuring or are one year away. Changes that can occur for these schools include firing the principal and changing teachers.