Tag: ESEA reauthorization

• Is school improvement a myth?

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  June 1, 2015

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  Accountability, School Turnaround

  In the discussions of reauthorizing NCLB almost no one is talking about whether the school is the right unit of accountability. And that’s because we continue to assume that schools are the problem and they can be fixed. But what if school improvement was found to be a myth? —- It’s really hard to convince…

  

• Harkin proposal for revision of NCLB has arrived

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  June 4, 2013

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  Accountability, High-Stakes Testing

  Harkin has released his Strengthening America’s Schools Act of 2013. A re-authorization of ESEA and revision to NCLB. I will try to produce Cloaking Inequity’s analysis in the next few days. Press release: http://lnkd.in/nZJjKT Bill: http://lnkd.in/mrG3Ns Bill summary: http://lnkd.in/DvA3pY See Cloaking Inequity’s posts on high-stakes testing and accountability. I am in Brazil for meetings at the Senate in…

  

• Race and NCLB Waivers: Moving Around the Chairs?

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  November 25, 2012

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  Accountability, African Americans, High-Stakes Testing, Latina/os

  In the recent vote for 2012 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year Award, the Florida SBOE race-based test score goals came in a close second to TFA for the prize. In fact, two of my Linkedin connections made the following comments in response the posting:  I vote for ALL ESEA waivers that systematize the achievement gap in many,…