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How ESSA will boost ed-tech funding
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) includes block grants intended for technology, among other uses. It also opens the door to new state testing systems.
Every Student Succeeds Act shifts more power to states
While a "new and improved" version of the hotly-debated No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) would still require reading and math testing in grades 3-8 and once in…
More than half of students struggle with reading, report says
Nearly half of minority students and students from low-income families enter the fifth grade without basic reading skills, according to a new report urging Congress to focus on…
ESEA rewrite passes Senate, education orgs respond
Voting 81-17, the U.S. Senate has replaced the controversial No Child Left Behind with the Every Child Achieves act, which solidifies a commitment to standardized testing but gives…
Senate to tackle NCLB update
A proposed updated to the Elemetary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) would strengthen state and local control and end federal test-based accountability. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and…
Duncan calls for NCLB repeal
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on January 12 laid out a vision for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that continues a focus on the nation’s…
Why we need a new education law—and why ed tech should play a role
The reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act has eluded Congress for too long. Without Congressional action, the current administration has seized the moment and used regulatory…
Obama threatens veto of House GOP ‘No Child Left Behind’ update
President Obama is threatening to veto a House bill to update the No Child Left Behind education law, The Hill reports.
Texas says ‘no’ to testing, seat time
The state that spurred the major expansion of standardized testing decades ago and became a model for No Child Left Behind is now saying “no” to copious amounts…
Republicans’ No Child Left Behind bill passes House committee, moving away from Bush’s vision
The Huffington Post reports that the House Education and the Workforce Committee on Wednesday passed the Student Success Act, chairman Rep. John Kline's (R-Minn.) rewrite of the No…
Lawmakers at odds over NCLB’s successor
The one-size-fits-all national requirements of No Child Left Behind would give way to standards that states write for themselves under legislation introduced by senators of both parties last…
G.O.P. bill on schools would set fewer rules
Signaling a preference for a much smaller role for the federal government in public schooling, Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, is introducing legislation on Thursday to revise…
Bill to alter Bush-era education law gives states more room
Renewing the effort to revise No Child Left Behind, the signature Bush-era federal education law, Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, introduced a new version on June 4…
No Child Left Behind: Pass or fail?
If you are a parent of one of the 50 million public schoolchildren in the United States, the odds are your child has taken a standardized test within…
Report: ESEA reauthorization could be trouble for waiver states
A new report surveying states that have applied for and received NCLB waivers finds they are worried that reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) could hinder…
Three federal education policy updates
As Congress nears a deadline to form a compromise and avoid sequestration, education stakeholders are hoping to avoid devastating school funding cuts that could put an end to…
ED considering district-by-district NCLB waivers
Education Secretary Arne Duncan is talking with individual school districts about how to free them from unworkable parts of the federal No Child Left Behind law, signaling he…
Duncan to Senate panel: No more invisible children under No Child Left Behind waivers
Under the Obama administration’s education policies, thousands of elementary and secondary schools are being held accountable for the academic performance of students who had been “invisible” under No…
U.S. states, local governments plead for new ‘No Child Left Behind’
U.S. state and local officials again called on Congress to pass renewed "No Child Left Behind" education legislation, writing in a letter on Tuesday that it must become…
Little hope for rewrite of expired Bush education law
In 2008, Barack Obama campaigned on the promise that his administration would oversee the rewriting of the expired No Child Left Behind Act. But four years later, education…
Texas backs away from NCLB, its own Bush-endorsed creation
Texas, the state that launched school accountability as an experiment, has applied to untangle itself from parts of the federal No Child Left Behind mandate, the same law…
No Child Left Behind waivers going to Wash., Wis.
The U.S. Department of Education is announcing that Washington and Wisconsin have won their bid to be relieved of some requirements of the federal "No Child Left Behind"…
5 more states granted NCLB waivers
Five more states have been granted relief from key requirements of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law, bringing the total to 24 states given waivers, an Obama…
ISTE 2012: Educators seek the brass ring of student engagement
“Redefining horizons: Encouraging students’ passion to achieve” is the theme for this year’s International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference—but in what looked like a scene that…
8 states get waiver from No Child Left Behind
Another eight states are gaining flexibility from the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday, the Associated Press reports.
NCLB says top schools ‘in need of improvement’
Griffin Memorial School in Litchfield, N.H. had 91 percent of its elementary students score proficient or better on the state's reading exam last fall, placing it among the…
House Republicans push plan to update NCLB
House Republicans on Feb. 16 pushed ahead with a plan to update the federal No Child Left Behind education law by shifting more control to states and school…
Florida offers look at problems with education law
By almost any measure, Norma Butler Bossard Elementary School is a top performing school in Miami. Yet when it comes to the federal No Child Left Behind law,…
Official: 10 states get NCLB waivers
President Barack Obama on Feb. 9 will free 10 states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, giving leeway to states that…
John Kline’s No Child Left Behind bills strike at values of Brown v. Board, coalition writes
A broad coalition of 38 civil rights, education reform and business groups sent House education chairman John Kline a scathing letter Wednesday, describing his No Child Left Behind…
Opinion: Why Is Congress redlining our schools?
Today a new form of redlining is emerging, says Stanford University Education Profession Linda Darling-Hammond, who directs the Stanford University Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and was…
Education law’s promise falls short after 10 years
The No Child Left Behind education law was cast as a symbol of possibility, offering the promise of improved schools for the nation's poor and minority children and…
On 10th anniversary, a look back at ‘No Child’ legacy
George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation, which requires students at all U.S. public schools to meet certain math and reading benchmarks, went into effect nearly…
Ohio schools fail to meet No Child Left Behind standards
Ohio plans to ask for a federal waiver to circumvent academic failure in 40 percent of the state's public schools this year, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Report: Half of schools fail to meet federal standards
Nearly half of America's public schools didn't meet federal achievement standards this year, marking the largest failure rate since the much-criticized No Child Left Behind law took effect…
11 states seek relief from NCLB
The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday that 11 states have formally submitted requests for waivers from key provisions of No Child Left Behind, the Huffington Post reports.
Costs of No Child Left Behind waivers “jaw dropping”
An ambivalent State Board of Education discussed but took no action Wednesday on pursuing a temporary waiver from strictures of the No Child Left Behind law, TopEd.org reports.
US school kids showing slight improvement in math
The nation's report card on math and reading shows fourth- and eighth-graders scoring their best ever in math and eighth graders making some progress in reading. But the…
No Child Left Behind waivers will likely end $650 million tutoring program
Dozens of states intend to apply for waivers that would free their schools from a federal requirement that they set aside hundreds of millions of dollars a year…