No Child Left Behind (NCLB)

No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) Act, the left is a U.S. Congress on the education of children in public schools. No Child Left Behind needs to be repaired. Reauthorization, which is the responsibility of Congress is to appropriate the road.

 We welcome Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) for their efforts to advance this process, and we share their frustration that reauthorization is long overdue. reauthorization in the absence of Congress, we understand why the Obama administration is taking this action, we are fully aware of calls from parents, teachers and administrators to change sooner rather than later. Exemptions are an imperfect response to the impasse in Congress and give the best only a temporary balm.

Much of what the administration proposes, is promising, is a cause for concern, and there are opportunities to expand the teaching and learning could be improved to be missed. We are pleased that the proposal of the Administration has more options to improve prospectively poorly performing schools to recognize that most agents are not required by NCLB flexibility.

The proposal also recognizes the importance of a college and career readiness standards, which could include the standards of the state core curriculum for children for the 21st century knowledge-based economy to prepare.

But after all that we know how to build and meaningful teacher evaluation and development of systems implemented since Race to the Top was announced two years ago, learned, we are disappointed that the results do not appear in this package.

 Evaluation to be more focused on education, does not focus more tests. Successful school districts in the United States and the nations understand that the most efficient systems of teacher evaluation should be on continuous improvement and support, not based on the simple sort, and it a missed opportunity not to follow their example.