Thursday, September 24, 2009

The Answer Sheet - TRANSCRIPT: Prepared Remarks for Ed Sec Duncan to Deliver Tomorrow on Future of NCLB


The Answer Sheet - TRANSCRIPT: Prepared Remarks for Ed Sec Duncan to Deliver Tomorrow on Future of NCLB:

"I also agree with some NCLB critics: the law was underfunded -- it unfairly labeled many schools as failures even when they were making progress -- it places too much emphasis on raw test scores rather than student growth -- and it is overly prescriptive in some ways while it is too blunt an instrument of reform in others.

But the biggest problem with NCLB is that it doesn’t encourage high learning standards."