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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Is NCLB bill passed by Senate panel real or pseudo reform? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Is NCLB bill passed by Senate panel real or pseudo reform? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

Is NCLB bill passed by Senate panel real or pseudo reform?

This was written by Monty Neill, executive director of FairTest, the National Center for Fair & Open Testing, a Boston-based non-profit dedicated to ending the misuse of tests. This post is about a bill passed last week by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee that is a rewrite of No Child Left Behind, the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The committee sent the bill to the full Senate on a 15-7 vote. A version of this post was published on the National Journal Education blog.

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