by Jack Jennings | Apr 21, 2011 | academic standards, accountability, federal education policy, federal funding, NAEP, No Child Left Behind, teachers, testing
Federal funding for schools has not been effective, asserted some conservative members of Congress at a recent hearing on extending the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the main national law aiding public education. Soon, it is safe to bet, some members...
by Jack Jennings | Apr 7, 2011 | No Child Left Behind, teachers, testing
The Center on Education Policy has received dozens of calls from the news media about the Obama administration’s effort to improve the schools that rank among lowest-achieving 5 percent of schools in each state. This year, most of those schools in every state...
