Books

  • Resist No Child Left Behind, don’t embrace it
  • Pop quiz: Who will do the heavy lifting?
  • NY Times falls in line with the Bloomberg PR spin control
  • Central High’s method of change questioned
  • If Arne Duncan Knows. . .
  • Extinction of critical thinking
  • Obama chides California for not using test scores to evaluate teachers
  • Obama Launches Race for $4 Billion in Education Funds
  • Nationwide petition seeks end to No Child Left Behind
  • Duncan On Standards, No Child Left Behind, And Scalping Tickets To An Event With Newt Gingrich
  • Math scores plunge in TAKS retest at Lang Middle School in Dallas ISD
  • A Drum Roll Please For NOT Continuing Every Child Left Behind!
  • Finding gold in a column by Jay Mathews, author of Work Hard Be Nice about KIPP
  • Study: No Child Left Behind sets schools up to fail
  • Teachers snub Scholastic toys
  • National Education Standards
  • K-12 Chief Tapped as Education Dept. Takes Shape
  • Military-backed public schools on the rise in US
  • National Press Club: Education Secretary Duncan Speaks About Education Reform, Part 2
  • National Press Club: Education Secretary Duncan Speaks About Education Reform, Part 1
  • Tennessee schools could lose $100 million
  • Turning Around Troubled Schools
  • U.S. schools chief: California a longshot for stimulus
  • HISD scores decline with updated exam
  • Spending too much to educate poor children?
  • Education Standards Likely to See Toughening
  • An Interview with Richard Rothstein, Rebecca Jacobsen, and Tamara Wilder about their new book, Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right
  • Bobb + Broad + Detroit state reps = DPS Disaster
  • Hold the Line on School Reform
  • US schools chief says kids need more class time
  • Department of Education paid private tutor firm $21M in 2 years, most of it in overhead
  • Give Every Child More than the Best Seat in the House (Chamber)
  • Compliance by the New York City Department of Education with the Curriculum Mandates of the New York State Education Law
  • Education Secretary Says Aid Hinges on New Data
  • Failing test scores prompt Michigan to cancel writing portion of MEAP
  • Bad Grades for Obama on Education
  • Testing’s ‘collateral damage’
  • Reading First Isn’t Dead–Yet
  • As Bush, Spellings Exit, They Put Last Signatures on No Child Left Behind
  • Stimulus gives schools $142B — with strings
  • Washinton Post Recycles Old Op-Eds to Keep NCLB Hopes Alive
  • Business Roundtable Congratulates President-elect Obama on the selection of Arne Duncan
  • Duncan’s Chicago record poor model for America
  • Hunger, Academic Success, and the Hard Bigotry of Indifference
  • Joint Organizational Statement on No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act
  • Advice for Duncan: The Professor
  • Bush Praises Results of ‘No Child’ Law President Cites Increased School Accountability, ‘Closing’ Achievement Gap,
  • The Most Extensive Proof that NCLB Has Been a Massive Failure
  • One Teacher’s Testimony
  • Obama’s Possible Candidates for Education Secretary
  • SIX YEARS LATER, NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND NEEDS A MAKEOVER
  • Swampoodle Report: No Child Law is Even Making Liberals Dumber
  • School’s Success Story Gives Way to Doubt
  • In A New Book from The Century Foundation National Education Experts Offer Advice for Next Administration on How to Fix NCLB
  • When children have no home
  • Looking Beyond Current Economic Crisis, U.S. Urgently Needs Education Reform in Order to Keep Up with International Competition
  • One-size-fits-none school
  • FCAT used to reward teachers
  • Nailing down specifics on ‘No Child’
  • Former Louisville Dean Indicted on Charges Related to Diverting Funds
  • Search It Sets Off Come at a Difficult Time
  • Bailing Out the Foes of Public Eduction
  • ‘Reading First’ is a costly failure
  • No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Why It Should be Eliminated
  • Education Reform and What Bush Leaves Behind
  • MCAS critics renew call for abolition of test
  • Recess time under pressure from FCATs, classwork
  • A teacher triumphs over testing
  • Tot testing plan given low grade
  • Test Industry Split Over Formative’Assessment
  • Author tracks one man’s quest to fix Harlem
  • Study: Many 8th-graders can’t handle algebra
  • Power on the Job
  • Advice to Contradict DIBELS
  • A Comment on New York Times Misrepresentation of Corporate School Reform
  • Errors may snarl Illinois testing: Officials hire auditor, worry state testscores may show failure of system
  • NCLB Reauthorization
  • In Nashville, Laura Bush rallies teachers to rescue Reading First
  • The Biggest Issue
  • Stop dumbing down America: Reform the No Child Left Behind Act
  • More Georgia schools fall short
  • Most Hawaii public high schools fail under No Child Left Behind
  • Failing Texas schools face dwindling options
  • Yoga Bears: It’s No Stretch to Say Traders Are Taking Deep Breaths
  • School District now holding back fewer students
  • FCAT’s smoke and mirrors
  • No Single Explanation For Md. Test Score Bump
  • It’s Time to Leave “No Child” Behind
  • Margaret on The Colbert Report
  • A Noteworthy Teacher Speaks Out
  • Recess policy up for review by Tacoma School District
  • Audit: Detroit Public Schools misused $53.6 million
  • Students pass state test, but at what cost to their education?
  • ‘Reading First Funds Headed for Extinction
  • Education standards, test scores linked
  • News from the AFT Convention
  • Teachers Union To Back Candidate
  • Reading First program could be on its last legs
  • Six States to Design Own Plans for Fixing Schools