NCLB
Minnesota's tests: are they really worth the trouble?
There are times in a person's life - like when you give yourself a home perm or when you drive your car with the "check oil" light on - when you look at an expert and ask, "Is the damage really that bad?"
Take for example this column printed last week in the Worthington Daily Globe by Tammy Timko, the Worthington schoolMORE »
Boxed in by bad policy
There are about 1,800 principals in Minnesota. Each oversees a school that has been affected by the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law. While NCLB was created in Washington D.C., it has permeated education down into each classroom.MORE »
Fresh start at Edison High
Last year, Minneapolis Public Schools pushed the restart button on two of their seven high schools. It was a dramatic move, designed to restore parents’ confidence after years of sinking test scores and declining enrollments. Students and teachers alike greeted it with tears and anger.MORE »
St. Paul science success
Jim Schrankler is a modest man. His students just made the high water mark in the state science test and he's trying to spread the glory around. He's pointing his finger at the students, at the classroom teachers, at the computer specialist, at the parents.
Schrankler and the staff at St. Anthony Park Elementary in St. Paul have a right to be proud.MORE »
School figures don't give true picture, Education Minnesota says
The "Adequately Yearly Progress" data announced by the Minnesota Department of Education doesn't give a true picture of the performance of the state's public schools, Education Minnesota President Tom Dooher said.
The federal No Child Left Behind Act requires schools to measure "Adequate Yearly Progress." Recently released figures indicate the number of Minnesota schools that did not make AYP iMORE »
VOICES | My Minnesota: No Child Left Behind test results
We are living in an ever more competitive global economy. Well-paying, life-long blue collar jobs have nearly disappeared. There is no escaping that the students in our schools today must graduate at higher levels and with better skills than their parents. Are the No Child Left Behind tests the best way to measure such academic achievement?MORE »
Educators discuss troublesome aspects of NCLB
Sharon Radd claims that public education in the U.S. has manipulated marginalized populations and has become privatized, imperialized and consumer-driven.MORE »
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