In today’s Washington Post, Margaret Spellings mildly praised the progress created by NCLB. That “Student achievement results from the Nation’s Report Card published last week show that we are on the right track. Since enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, which called for all students to be on grade level in reading and math by 2014, students have been making progress in reading and math in elementary and middle school. Improvement has been greatest for African American and Hispanic students and those students who are lowest-achieving.” But, I will unforunately offer a different statistic and insight into our condition.
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Nation’s Report Card… On the right track?!?
Monday, May 4th, 2009Elimination of Age-based Grade Levels… repost
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009Educators and Administrators are watching intently how this next experiement upon learning methods will effect graduation rates and the meeting of standards. This experiment by the Adams 50 district will remove age-based, developmental-based, grade levels and exchanged them for academic, achievement-based levels. At first glance this could be a “small step, giant leap” scenario, the reality is that this could be nothing more than “rearranging deck chairs on a sinking ship.” Why might I say this, well let’s examine how the old system was supposed to work.
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