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Pro-Abort Proposes Sweeping Reforms to No Child Left Behind

The Monitor
McALLEN -- Obama's plan to overhaul the nation's education law received generally positive marks from superintendents in the Rio Grande Valley on Monday. Obama's proposal would cast aside much of the 2002 No Child Left Behind law and would move away from punishing schools for not meeting federal benchmarks and instead focus on rewarding progress. Among the more important revisions, local superintendents said, was Obama's proposal to call for states to adopt standards to ensure students are college or career ready rather than grade-level proficient, as the current law does. Obama unveiled his plan Saturday, saying the proposal would make sure kids have better teachers and attend better schools so that they can make up for academic ground lost to children in other countries.
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Obama to push 'No Child Left Behind' overhaul
CNN.com
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration plans to send a wide-ranging overhaul of the No Child Left Behind education law to Congress on Monday, arguing that the current legislation has pushed schools to lower their standards to meet federal requirements. The 8-year-old law was one of the signature policies of the Bush administration. It set up a regimen of state reading and math tests for students in third through eighth grades, intended to identify failing schools. But critics have said the Bush administration never properly funded the effort and that states needed more flexibility in meeting those goals. During his weekly radio address Saturday, President Obama said his administration's proposed overhaul will "set a high bar -- but we also provide educators the flexibility to reach it."

Overhauling No Child Left Behind
Los Angeles Times
If the No Child Left Behind Act is to be overhauled -- and it should be -- the new version should strip away the law's overly prescriptive notions of what constitutes improvement and impose fairer ways of holding schools accountable. Though some of the fixes outlined Monday by the Obama administration would improve the law, others could prove as rigid, and therefore as unrealistic, as the original, which naively promised to make every student academically proficient. The new target is for 100% of high schoolers to be graduating by 2020, and for all of those graduates to be "college ready." We're glad to see the Obama administration target dropout rates; reducing them is a necessary and achievable goal. No Child Left Behind never paid enough attention to the one-third of students who leave school without a diploma.

Posted by Editor at March 16, 2010 02:14 AM