No help for students who fail state exams 9.18.10 - More than 100,000 students who scored below grade level on state exams won't automatically get the extra help they received last year.
What No Child Left Behind did and didn't do 9.18.10 - No Child Left Behind, the most influential and infuriating federal education law in 40 years, is not quite dead, but getting close. The Obama administration and Congress say they will discard it soon for something different. Nobody's paying ...
Schools would be great if it weren't for the kids 9.18.10 - Education author Alfie Kohn, referring to a Robert Samuelson column that blames failing schools on unmotivated students, writes: "Blaming students is the next logical step after blaming teachers. In fact, the two reflect the same general ...