Friday Wrap: Are We Making Progress?
Julie Underwood, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s school of ed, explains in the Wisconsin State Journal why Adequate Yearly Progress has little to do with how a school is really peforming. “AYP merely masquerades as accountability and adds nothing of value toward the goal of providing the best possible education for all children,” she writes.
The Bangor Daily News mulls progress, promotes growth models in the reauthorization, and says Congress must sort out what in NCLB “helps students improve their academic performance and what merely makes adults feel as if someone is being held accountable.”
Meanwhile, DOE Secretary Spellings hinted this week to USA Today’s editorial board that she’d go for a process that evaulated schools close to making AYP differently from chronic underperformers.
Finally, NEA’s Annual Meeting begins tomorrow in Philadelphia, with lots of NCLB talk expected.
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