Suddenly for the first time in years, there is considerable talk about reforming federal policy in education. Today this blog will review the way federal education policy has become stuck and an academic paper that seems to have stimulated new thinking by a number of education advocacy and civil rights organizations. Tomorrow, the blog will share two new policy statements from prominent civil rights and education policy organizations as well as reviewing growing protests against the standardized testing that has—due to growing federal and state accountability requirements—come to dominate our public schools.
A quick review of the history of the No Child Left Behind Act: For a long time there has been a hopeless feeling among people who care about the children and teachers in public schools, because it has been clear that not much was going to happen to change the failed policies of the 2002 No Child Left…
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