Saturday, March 31, 2012

Podcast: Rep. Rob Bishop on A-PLUS Act and Education Reform

Podcast: Rep. Rob Bishop on A-PLUS Act and Education Reform:

Scribecast: Rep. Rob Bishop Outlines an Alternative to No Child Left Behind

March 31, 2012 at 8:43 am

More than half of states have asked the U.S. Department of Education for a waiver from No Child Left Behind. Ten years after President George W. Bush signed the law, the Obama administration appears willing to grant waivers, so long as states adopt a new set of requirements favored by the current occupant in the White House.

Chief among them is the Common Core State Standards, national standards and tests that require states tosurrender control of their classrooms.

That doesn’t sit well with Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), a former high school teacher and founder of the 10th