Advice on NCLB
Since it’s inception No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has been a hot button issue for educators and policy makers. Now that President Obama is in office should we get rid of NCLB or keep the system in place?
We look back before the election at some of the education advice that Randall Collins the president of the American Association of School Administrators, Jack Dale, the Superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools, Sandy Kress, former education advisor to George W. Bush, and Eric Scroggins the Executive Director of Teach for America in the San Francisco Bay Area offered to the next President regarding NCLB.
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“We have to move towards higher standards”
Paul Vallas is currently superintendent of the Recovery School District of New Orleans, Louisiana. He was formerly the CEO of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS).
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“We need to redefine the prevailing idea of the standards movement”
Dr. William Sanders is a senior research fellow with the University of North Carolina system and is senior manager of value-added assessment and research for SAS Institute Inc. in Cary, N.C.
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“Create modest incentives for states to work together on initiatives”
Richard Murnane is an economist and Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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“A real holistic accountability system for schools”
Dr. Scott Conti is the principal of New Design High School in New York City.
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“Rethink education policy to involve things beyond school”
Paul Tough is an editor at the New York Times Magazine and the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America.
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“Very flexible about means but be firm about ends”
Andrew Rotherham is co-founder and co-director of Education Sector, an independent national education policy think tank.
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“Old commitment to inequality won’t get us where we need to go”
Linda Darling-Hammond is Professor of Education at Stanford University and Director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future.
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“The next president must take a leadership role in setting national educational standards”
Beverly Hall is the Superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools.
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“We need a set of national expectations”
David Levin co-founded and currently serves as Superintendent of the KIPP Academy in the South Bronx, a public middle school.
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