Archive for the ‘NCLB’
November 29, 2007
By: richard.ginn
Category: NCLB, No Child Left Behind, Uncategorized
school districts in the state have been told in a letter they are in danger of being abolished, taken over or stripped of administrators and schools under their jurisdiction due to not meeting goals in the NCLB bill.
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November 19, 2007
By: richard.ginn
Category: NCLB, No Child Left Behind, Uncategorized
is out and what a state calls a “Dangerous School.” Around 94,000 schools exist and only 46 were designated as persistently dangerous in the past school year. Widespread underreporting of violent acts and states with rules saying was a dangerous school is the cause for so few schools to make the list.
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November 14, 2007
By: richard.ginn
Category: NCLB, No Child Left Behind, Uncategorized
On NCLB is out. They are releasing the 2007 Pangloss Index. The one state they focus the most on and had the biggest jump was Alabama. Jumping up to 5th place from 22nd in one year.
The report gets into detail on how the Birmingham Alabama school districts cheated the students in the school district by using a high subgroup size to get less students counted and getting the US Department of Education to agree giving schools half credit for every student who missed level III but achieved level II just to help with AYP goals. With almost every student at level II it screwed up real AYP progress big time.
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November 05, 2007
By: richard.ginn
Category: NCLB, No Child Left Behind, Uncategorized
on the No Child Left Behind Bill. The article looks at how the bill got passed.
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November 01, 2007
By: richard.ginn
Category: NCLB, No Child Left Behind, Uncategorized
Wisconsin who is refusing to administer a standardized test for eighth graders. David Wasserman does not want to administer the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam because he feels the test is a poor way to measure student progress. He could get fired.
I wonder if a substitute teacher could administer the exam without the teacher getting fired.
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October 30, 2007
By: richard.ginn
Category: NCLB, No Child Left Behind, Uncategorized
The LA Times looks at this Democratic congressman who wants to fix the NCLB. He would like to see better pay for more performance in the school system and some people are not to happy about that idea.
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