I once read that the streams of history are filled with the blood of martyrs and soldiers, with the loud waves of war, the boats battling upstream for progress and power and conquest. Yet, if you step away from the stream, off to the banks, you'll see the real history. True, the streams might overflow and innocent people get sucked into the ...

“America has a decision to make. We can continue to pursue education strategies that focus on schools alone and on narrow, test-based accountability—and be content with the modest improvements long associated with this approach. Or we can ratchet up our ambitions and adopt a new and expanded strategy with the capacity to improve student ...

I'm not sure how long Hillary is going to hang in there, but I do think that she is one determined woman.  If you would like to check out what the three candidates are saying about NCLB, teacher pay, and higher education affordability, click here.  After reading their views, you might be as confused as I am. ...

Some states will get to breathe a little easier than others when it comes to the NCLB law.  The Bush administration, acknowledging that the federal No Child Left Behind law is diagnosing too many public schools as failing, said Tuesday that it would relax the law’s provisions for some states, allowing them to distinguish schools with a few ...

Some people blog. Others have so much to say that it could fill a book. I guess I fall in the latter category. Hi everyone. I just discovered this site as I was looking for teacher forums to participate in because as my subject line says, I do have some free copies of a book that I want to giveaway.  But now I see this is a site ...

Some schools scrambling to increase their scores in math and reading due to NCLB are pulling time and resources from other subjects.  Experts are seeing an increasing trend to devote more class time and instruction to reading and math, as well as other core subjects deemed crucial by state and federal mandates. As a result, ...

In Phoenix, Arizona there is a school district that was way behind the eight ball in getting kids to read.  So, they partnered with the newspaper and received many grants to help bring students up to grade level by 3rd grade.  They failed.  Why?  They had hundreds of thousands of dollars, many many voluteer tutors and loads of ...

When talking about the renewal of the No Child Left Behind Law, veteran science teacher Valdine McLean from Nevada compares learning to riding a bike.   Part of her essay (McLean delivered her comments before the Committee on Education and Labor of the U.S. House of Representatives on the theme ''Boosting Quality in the ...

The Bush administration wants to loosen the rules and offer alternative tests for more special ed students in the new version of the No Child Left Behind law.  States have been asking for more flexibility in how they test special education students.  Roughly 10 percent of special education students – those with the most ...

States are putting in their two cents about changes they think need to be made to the NCLB law.  If President Bush wants to sign the next version of the federal law, he is going to have to consider making some compromises. As Congress starts considering complaints from school districts, governors and others, chances are that a ...