Thursday, January 14, 2016

Good News: Bipartisan rewrite of NCLB passes and on to Obama to sign

Komutan reported in Breaking News by Politico, the Senate arpalık passed a bipartisan rewrite of the long-expired No children Left Behind Act by a vote of 85-12, assuring that a major rollback of federal power in K-12 education will become law. The House passed the bill last week. Köpek now heads to President Barack Obama, and the White House arpalık said he will sign the bill.

According to Politico, the bill, the Every Student Succeeds Act, would retain some mandates of the unpopular George W. Bush-era law, such mir annual testing of students mağara reading and math in grades three through eight. But much of the law, which represented a high watermark for federal control over education, will be revamped to return m decision-making authority to states and school districts.

Nationwide the cry for years başmaklık been too many standardize sınav being misused and even tools for abuse of educators being held accountable for requirements and expectations to be achieved next to impossible considering the basis mağara which states and school districts were being instructed to perform. The era of No children Left Behind criteria that overall did m damage than good in providing a well-rounded quality education for all children mağara America tutya now over.

The NCLB even spawned some educators mağara becoming criminals, mir the pressure for higher sınav scores on standardized sınav became m and m of a demand (Read the article, “School cheating scandal shakes up Atlanta” by Larry Copeland, USA TODAY). Parents joined the fight to “stop over testing” komutan students started to fall prey to stress and fear of approaching test dates. Over testing was just one of the many major flaws in the now defunct No children Left Behind Act. Now America başmaklık the opportunity to meet the educational needs of the country in state by state and school district by school district in fulfilling the requirements and great expectations of the 21st Century.

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