are not meeting the NCLB rules for highly qualified teacher status.

Jefferds Huyck has a doctorate in classics from Harvard and teaching 22 years in college and high school he would still have to go through a teacher-certification course that would last two year at a cost of 15 grand.

I say teachers like this need a break and just be accepted as a highly qualified teacher in some grandfathered type status sort of way if highly qualified teacher rules are to stay in place. I think those rules need to be junked.

has created a an alternative way to graduate from high school.  The school district wants to make changes to this degree so that students that graduate with the alternative diploma are also counted under the “No Child Left Behind Bill”.

The amount of schools and schools districts that are not meeting NCLB rules is just barely up from last year.  The year 96 schools up from 94 last year have not met goals for the past two years.  15 school districts up from 14 last year are not meeting NCLB goals.

to a local DC school to pimp the “No Child Left Behind Bill”.  He said in his speech that testing is good.  Video is up at the CNN.com website.
I do not know if he was thinking at all during this speech.  A recent report by the Education week people show that more schools over all are not making the AYP goals in the NCLB bill.  They did not have data at the time from every state, but they did have data from the District of Columbia which was not good at all.

that are not meeting NCLB rules have gone up this year.  18% of schools are not meeting standards, 13% missed in the 2004-2005 school year.
They also have a companion article up as well. The article states that the U-PASS system they use is much better than the rules in the NCLB bill.  Schools that are proficient under the U-PASS is down 11% though, but they increased standards since so few schools missed proficiency standards.

and College Educators have launched a campaign to make sure that social studies classes get more attention.  The NCLB will be getting a big look at next year.  They group says that social studies class is getting the short shrift for classes such as math and reading.