ARTICLE: Obama to Seek Sweeping Change in ‘No Child’ Law

[Ryan Goble]

This NYTimes article does a nice job of illustrating the broad strokes of the new ESEA/NCLB.  I think this could be good: 

The current system issues the equivalent of a pass-fail report card for every school each year, an evaluation that administration officials say fails to differentiate among chaotic schools in chronic failure, schools that are helping low-scoring students improve and high-performing suburban schools that nonetheless appear to be neglecting some low-scoring students. 

Instead, under the administration’s proposals, a new accountability system would divide schools into more categories, offering recognition to those that are succeeding and providing large new amounts of money to help improve or close failing schools. 

I think the fact that NO ONE is talking about the fact that all the professional associations don't want to take part in the National Core Standards and they are being written by many textbook & testing companies = not good.

A new goal, which would replace the 2014 universal proficiency deadline, would be for all students to leave high school “college or career ready.” Currently more than 40 states are collaborating, in an effort coordinated by the National Governors Association and encouraged by the administration, to write common standards defining what it means to be a graduate from high school ready for college or a career.

To read the whole article at the NYTimes click here.