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Las Vegas Sun
By Emily Richmond
LAS VEGAS SUN
Mirroring results in Clark County, the number of Nevada schools labeled as "needing improvement" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act skyrocketed this year to 122 campuses, up from 26 in 2003.
There was a silver lining in the results released Monday by the Nevada Department of Education -- the number of schools on the state's "watch list" for a single year's low test scores dropped to 103 from 19... |
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Goldsboro News-Argus
Northeast Elementary School squeaked past three-year standout Northwest Elementary as the highest performing public school in Wayne County, according to the state's accountability program.
Charles B. Aycock High School joined Eastern Wayne High as a "school of distinction."
But unlike last year, when all 28 eligible schools met or exceeded the state's growth expectations for the first time, 15 of the schools failed to make "adequate yearly progress" under a federa... |
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| Wayne County School Board to protest the No Child Left Behin... |
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Goldsboro News-Argus
Disturbed by some of the results that a federal law is producing in Wayne County public schools, the school board has decided to lodge a protest.
The concern is that the federal No Child Left Behind law is causing more schools to be labeled as not meeting the standards.
The law targets up to 10 subgroups in a school to measure what it calls "adequate yearly progress." These range from measuring the school as a whole, to such subgroups as white students, black stud... |
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| Taxpayer Billions Wasted on Education |
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Cybercast News Service
By Alan Caruba
CNSNews.com Commentary from the National Anxiety Center
August 03, 2004
If there is one problem that baffles and frustrates people who write to me, it is the state of education in America today.
Everybody, educators and parents alike, knows it continues to fail the millions of students who pass through kindergarten to twelfth grade, leaving too many without the skills of literacy and arithmetic/mathematics, as well as a decent knowledge... |
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| Principals in AFSA Union Speak Out in New Study: No Child Le... |
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Business Wire
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 2004--The No Child Left Behind act is having a profound and pronounced effect on which subjects are being taught in their schools, say members of the American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA), AFL-CIO in the findings reported in a recent survey.
The AFSA members surveyed work as principals in public schools in Chicago, New York, and Maryland. They participated in the first significant study of how the controversial federal law, the... |
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| Growing Chorus Fights to Preserve Arts Education in Schools |
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RedNova
[Deseret News (Salt Lake City)]
Arts educators cheered when the arts were declared a "core" academic subject under the No Child Left Behind education reform measure signed into law two years ago by President Bush.
Since then, however, those cheers have turned to consternation as arts educators have watched school districts around the nation cut classroom time and funding for art and music. School officials say they now need to focus most of their attention and money on rea... |
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