[net-gold] [mls-digitaldivide] As NCLB Reaches 8-Year Mark, Many Wonder What's Next?

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As NCLB Reaches 8-Year Mark,
Many Wonder What's Next?

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/08/
AR2010010802165.html>

By Nick Anderson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 8, 2010; 1:04 PM
Washington Post

Eight years after President George W. Bush
signed the bill that branded an era of school
reform, the education world is wondering when
President Obama will seek to rewrite the
No Child Left Behind law.

Obama officials, who for months have been on a
"listening and learning" tour, are expected at
some point to propose a framework for the
successor to a law that is two years overdue for
reauthorization. Time is growing short if the
president aims for action before midterm
elections that could weaken Democratic majorities
in Congress.

As the eighth anniversary of the law's enactment
passed quietly Friday -- an occasion that Bush
marked throughout his presidency as a domestic
policy milestone -- the regimen of standardized
testing and school accountability remains intact.

Every year from grades three through eight, and at
least once in high school, students must take
reading and math exams. Every year, public schools
are rated on the progress they make toward the law's
goal of universal proficiency by 2014. And every year,
states label more schools as falling short and impose
sanctions on them, including shakeups and shutdowns.

"In many ways, NCLB is a compact disc in an iPod
world," Bob Wise, president of the Washington-based
Alliance for Excellent Education, said in a statement.
"It's still around, but it is in desperate need of
an upgrade." His group wants more provisions in the
law to prevent high school dropouts.

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Education historian Diane Ravitch,
a critic of the law who served under
President George H.W. Bush, predicted
that Obama will not deviate sharply
from policies he inherited. "They're
really not going to repudiate
No Child Left Behind," Ravitch said.
"They're just going to rename it and
add the twist of more choice, more
accountability."

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[net-gold] [mls-digitaldivide] As NCLB Reaches 8-Year Mark, Many Wonder What's Next?

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