Folks are all a-bubble about Common Core. But how'd the last big education reform wave, No Child Left Behind, work out? President George W. Bush signed that bipartisan education reform into law in 2002. We spent a good decade rewriting…
Posts tagged as “No Child Left Behind”
Displaced Plainsman and I both celebrate the South Dakota Department of Education's decision to blow raspberries at No Child Left Behind. Even in the midst of huge budget cuts, we're willing to risk the loss of federal education dollars to…
The Displaced Plainsman highlights a hard choice facing Rep. Kristi Noem. She makes vague assertions that she wants to reform No Child Left Behind to allow more local control. That's an easy statement to make within the sloppy boundaries of…
I am pleased to see that what every teacher in South Dakota has known since the inception of No Child Left Behind is now the official position of the state Department of Education: the testing goals of NCLB are unworkable.…
I wonder what blog post Rep. Kristi Noem got this idea from: "There are portions of our federal policy that have absolutely been broken," Noem said. "And these people certainly have the best advice on how we can fix it.…