Harkin's Education Bill Draft Shows A Federal Rollback

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Harkin's Education Bill Draft Shows A Federal Rollback An early draft of a Senate committee's sweeping rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act rolls back major accountability provisions of the law's current form, known as No Child Left Behind. The bill would require states to develop their own standards for student performance with little federal oversight, according to language obtained by The Huffington Post. Double-Checking Obama's Math On Teacher Jobs The Punishment For Cheating Connecticut Teachers Spellings: What It's Going to Take to Transform Our Schools Chicago Afterschool Program To Cut Student Paychecks By 75 Percent WATCH: Man Born Without Arms Plays Guitar With Feet, Inspires Students BLOG POSTS Robert Niles: Why I Send My Children to Public Schools I don't believe in the people who are attacking our public schools. Sending my children to public schools is the ultimate sign of support, and helps keep me more deeply involved in a precious public resource that needs, and deserves, our support. John Thompson: What Moneyball Can Teach Us About Education Change has been just as slow in baseball as in education, but only in education does the simplistic faith in numbers still dominate. Marian Wright Edelman: A Parent, Community, and National Audit: It's Time for Adults to Shape up and Close the Hypocrisy Gap I urge every parent and adult to conduct a personal audit to examine whether we are contributing to the crisis so many of our children face or to the solutions they urgently need. Abdul Malik Mujahid: Thank You, Steve Jobs, From a Muslim Innovator I thank God for the idea and thank Steve for enabling me to do it. As Prophet Muhammad has said, one cannot be grateful to God unless he or she is thankful to people. Reshma Saujani: The American DREAM No facet of our country's immigration debate is more heartless or economically foolish than our failure to support undocumented children who have grown up on American soil.

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