Posts Tagged ‘ NCLB ’

No Magic Bullet

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In No Magic Bullet for Education the Los Angeles Times takes a look at teacher evaluations, education reform, Race to the Top grants, standardized tests and more: The “unschooling” movement of the 1970s featured open classrooms, in which children studied what they were most interested in, when they felt ready. That was followed by...
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Test, Punish, and Push Out

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This 56 page report by the Advancement Project subtitled, How Zero Tolerance and High-Stakes Testing Funnel Youth into the School to Prison Pipeline is not a surprise but to see it backed with documentation is an eye opener. From the Advancement Project’s download page: Test, Punish, and Push Out: How Zero Tolerance and High-Stakes...
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Homeschooling is “a” choice, not “school choice”

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Again, homeschooling is implicated in a decline in a school district’s enrollment.  In this instance, the parents are said to be exercising their “right to school choice.”  I don’t consider homeschooling to be part of the “school choice” package. Area schools see trend of dropping enrollment, 15 September 2008, Meadville Tribune, Meadville, Pennsylvania There are...
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NCLB version of football

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Henry Cate at Why Homeschool, has a link to a humorous post about the “NCLB version of football.”  A couple of the funny points are that all teams will win championships and only game scores from the 4th, 8th and 11th games will count towards the team’s standing.
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NCLB reauthorization … of family life?

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The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) act does not apply to homeschooling families because the federal government does not give them any money for their children’s educations. Still, I must comment because this wording in the NCLB discussion bill puts everyday family life into federal law. Miller-McKeon Discussion Draft, PDF-pages 276 – 277 (d)...
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Homeschooling as one key to innovative education

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This article is from an unusual source, EnergyBulletin.net. The site’s focus is the peak (and the downhill slide afterwards) of the global oil supply. The article’s author Richard Embleton has written other articles about education, and those articles are at his blog, Oil, Be Seeing You. Energy Bulletin, 29 January 2007, Give me a...
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