‘Avoidable Losses’

There are unintended consequences of education reform efforts, and then there are “avoidable losses.”
In a study of 271,000 Texas public high school students, Rice University researchers found that the state’s accountability system, the model for NCLB, has succeeded wildly…in producing more dropouts. Disproportionately minority student dropouts.
How bad was it? The study found that 60 percent of the African American students, [...]

Economic Stimulus Package

Money worries keeping you up at night? AOL’s Money & Finance blog, WalletPop.com, advises that there are good part-time gigs to be had this spring, thanks to No Child Left Behind.
“If you’re interested in picking up a few bucks without lifting anything heavier than a pencil,” WalletPop blogger Tom Barlow writes, you can make $11 to [...]

Are the Patriots on the Way to 100% Proficiency?

It was a depressing week, as Bush dug in his heels on NCLB reauthorization and put a billion dollar voucher cherry on top in his State of the Union address.
So let’s not think about it. It’s almost Superbowl Sunday. Open a jar of salsa and a bag of chips, sit back, and enjoy one of those clever [...]