John Legend On Education; North Dakota Withdraws No Child Left Behind Waiver Request: Ed Today
John Legend, Saving Your Schools? Musician John Legend appeared at USC last night to promote his education reform agenda, according to the Daily Trojan. "If we think demography is destiny, we will allow our school system to confirm that belief," Legend said, echoing basically the entire reform movement. He serves on the board education advocacy group Stand for Children.
Waiver Withdrawal? North Dakota is withdrawing the application it wrote to the Obama administration get out of the strictures of the No Child Left Behind Act, reports the Bismark Tribune. North Dakota was one of the late waiver applicants. I remember calling the state to find out their status over the summer, and Wayne Sanstead, who was state superintendent at the time, told me he was readying an application but looking forward to his retirement. Now, Kirsten Baesler, Sanstead's replacement, is withdrawing it. As of last week, the U.S. Education Department hadn't approved the request. "The further we progressed through the waiver process, the more we felt we were being asked to adopt another national, one-size-fits-all model of education," Baesler said, according to
Waiver Withdrawal? North Dakota is withdrawing the application it wrote to the Obama administration get out of the strictures of the No Child Left Behind Act, reports the Bismark Tribune. North Dakota was one of the late waiver applicants. I remember calling the state to find out their status over the summer, and Wayne Sanstead, who was state superintendent at the time, told me he was readying an application but looking forward to his retirement. Now, Kirsten Baesler, Sanstead's replacement, is withdrawing it. As of last week, the U.S. Education Department hadn't approved the request. "The further we progressed through the waiver process, the more we felt we were being asked to adopt another national, one-size-fits-all model of education," Baesler said, according to
