ESEA Renewal: What We Know So Far
It sounds like the Education Department is edging closer and closer to releasing its draft proposal on reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. And even though we haven't seen a comprehensive draft, a lot of the details have already been made public, either through announcements from the White House, the fiscal 2011 budget proposal, Race to the Top regulations, or U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's speeches.
For instance we already know that:
*The Obama administration wants to replace the current metric for gauging student achievement—adequate yearly progress—with a system that measures whether students are ready for college or a career.
*The administration wants to tie Title I funding to states' adoption of college- and career-ready standards.
*The administration also wants states to develop a definition of "teacher effectiveness" that is partially based on student outcomes. And it wants states
