bill is on track.  She also says she is open to proposals to perfect and tweak the program, but she does not want to do major re-write of the bill.

A major re-write is the only thing that is going to make this bill work imo.

with lawmakers next week on the NCLB bill.  He wants to get a jump start on trying to re-new the law.

This Wahington Post article talks about this KIPP teacher who created her own math curriculum. One year goes buy and the 5th grades students in the AIM Academy go from the 16th to 77th percentile. The scores were calculated from the Stanford 10 standardized test.

Even with that big of a gain in that exam they still did not meet No Child Left Behind Goals for the D.C. Comprehensive Assessment System test.

The curriculum lets students build their own notes and examples.

has a released a whole bunch of studies all on the NCLB bill. The state of California is look at in one report, Colorado in another, and Michigan in another.

Some of the topics discussed are local school districts not wanting to make proper changes and parents not sending kids to other schools due to test data coming out too late.

want to revive a lawsuit that got dropped in 2005 on NCLB funding.

must change the passing grade on tests during the school year in order to meet NCLB rules and regulations.  A change in the passing grade could mean that some students will have to take the test again because they would have failed it.