Growth Models and Accountability: A Recipe for Remaking ESEA?
As the reauthorization of ESEA draws nearer, Education Sector’s Policy Director Kevin Carey and Robert Manwaring, a fiscal and policy consultant, argue in a newly released report, Growth Models and...
View ArticleHarkin Releases Proposal for ESEA Reauthorization
Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) released his draft proposal for the reauthorization of ESEA on October 11. To date, the proposal has been met with mixed reactions across the country. Civil rights groups...
View ArticleEducation Advocates Release “Statement of Principles” on ESEA Reauthorization
This month, twenty-five education advocacy organizations released a “statement of principles” addressed to Sens. Harkin and Enzi and Reps. Kline and Miller. The statement focused on the role of...
View ArticleThe Elections and Education: Discussions of ESEA and NCLB
See below for two upcoming opportunities: “Education 2012: What the Election Year Will Mean for Education Policy” Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 Time: 9:00-11:00am EST* *This event can be attended...
View ArticleHouse Panel Re-Authorizes Portions of ESEA
On February 28, the House Education and the Workforce Committee approved (in a 23-16) vote GOP-backed legislation reauthorizing portions of ESEA. Two bills, introduced by Rep. John Kline (R) of...
View ArticleReauthorization of ESEA Brings Chance to Improve Title I
A new brief by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) focuses in on the proposals to reauthorize portions of ESEA. The brief is part of a series co-authored by the Center for American Progress (CAP),...
View ArticleASCD sets 2013 Legislative Agenda
ASCD, one of the largest international organizations of teaching professionals, has set their 2013 legislative agenda, and that agenda, quite simply, is legislation. The “key priority” for ASCD and...
View ArticleED Attaches More Strings to NCLB Waiver Renewals
Michele McNeil at Education Week describes in a recent article how the Education Department, under Secretary Arne Duncan, continues to use NCLB waivers to enforce its policy goals. The situation,...
View ArticleAdvocacy Groups Ask Duncan For More Rigorous Waiver Reviews
In lieu of Congress re-authorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the most recent version of which is No Child Left Behind (2001), the Education Department under Arne Duncan has used...
View ArticleThe Shaping of Federal Education Policy Over Time
When looking at education issues today, it is interesting to review the events and people involved in shaping federal education policy over time. There is rich history of landmark events that directly...
View ArticleNever too Late: Why ESEA must fill the Missing Middle
When President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law in 2002, the U.S. national high school graduation rate was 72.6 percent. Today, the national high school graduation rate has...
View ArticleArne Duncan Stepping Down as Education Secretary
At a crucial moment with the best possibility of an ESEA re-authorization on the near horizon and with only about one year left before the end of the Obama administration, long-serving Education...
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