Posts Tagged ‘Education’
DC Shuttle: HELP Still Coming for NCLB; Five NE States Rank in Top 10 in Student Loan Debt
by The New England Council
November 8, 2011
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) scheduled a final hearing on legislative language to reauthorize the 2001 No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education law for Tuesday, Nov. 8. Educators and administrators are expected to testify to the burdensome requirements of the NCLB law, which the new legislation is intended to ameliorate. ...
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New Amendment: Quality Ed as a Constitutional Right
by Alan R. Earls
May 22, 2011
Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools; Theresa Perry, Robert Moses, Lisa Delpit, Ernesto Cortes Jr., Joan T. Wynne, editors; Beacon Press Books; 2010; Paperback $16
Quality Education as a Constitutional Right offers a provocative look at the continued disconnect between the rhetoric of reform and the facts of ...
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