Tag Archive: grades

Nation’s Report Card… On the right track?!?

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 ...

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Elimination of Age-based Grade Levels… repost

Educators 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, ...

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