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No Child Left Behind Adequate Yearly Progress Sub-groups Inadequate Fund- ing Framework Closing Achievement Gaps Unfunded Mandate AYP Highly Qualified Teachers One-size-fits-all Accountability No Child Left Behind Ade- quate NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND Yearly Progress Sub-groups Inadequate Funding Framework Clos- NCLB's ing Achievement Gaps Unfunded Mandate AYP Highly Qualified Teachers One-size-fits-all Accountability No Child Left Behind Adequate Yearly Prog- ress Sub-groups Inadequate Funding Framework Closing Achievement Gaps Unfunded Mandate AYP Highly Qualified Teachers One-size-fits-all Account- ability No Child Left Behind Adequate Yearly Progress Sub-groups Inad- equate Funding Framework Closing Achievement Gaps Unfunded Mandate AYP Highly Qualified Teachers One-size-fits-all Accountability No Child Left Behind Adequate Yearly Progress Sub-groups Inadequate Funding Frame- work Closing Achievement Gaps Unfunded Mandate AYP Highly Qualified Purity Teachers One-size-fits-all Accountability No Child Left Behind Adequate Yearly Progress Sub-groups Inadequate Funding Framework Closing Achievement Gaps Unfunded Mandate AYP Highly Qualified Teachers One-size-fits-al Accountability No Child Left Behind Adequate Yearly Progress Sub-groups Inadequate Funding Framework Closing Achievement Gaps Unfunded Man- date AYP Highly Qualified Teachers One-size-fits-all Accountability No Child Left Behind Adequate Yearly Progress Sub-groups Inadequate Fund- ing Framework Closing Achievement Gaps Unfunded Mandate AYP Highly QualifiFlaws notwithstanding, No Child Left Behind has brought Child Left Behind Ade- ed Teachers One-size-fits-all Accountability No By quate about significant academic improvement and is here to stay Framework Clos- Yearly Progress Sub-groups Inadequate Funding Alan Dessoff ing Achievement Gaps Unfunded Mandate AYP Highly Qualified Teachers hievement T One-size-Pfits-all G THE FIFTH ANNI- gets underway Child Left Behind National Alliance of Black A PROACHIN Accountability No in the new Con- with the Adequate Yearly Prog- Year VERSARY OF ITS ENACTMENT School Educators when states g ress next year. ress Sub-groups Inadequate Funding fall's elections Suandgrforups b- up o congressional reautho- Framework Closing Achieveme Gaps Achievement released their 2003-2004 student But even if this UnfunderdatMandate No Child Highly Qualified Teachers One-size-fits-all A i z ion next year, the AYP Account- achievement results. It is clear, shift the political direction in the the two organizations agreed, that legislative branch, NCLB appears Left Behind act continues to be a ability favorite Child Left many of likelyAdequate Yearly ProgressLeft Behind Act is No punching bag for Behind Sub-groups Inad- the No Child to stay on the statute books equate Funding largest educational Frameworkbecause it provides a framework, spurring real change. Closing Achievement Gaps Unfunded M Mandate the country's Once assailed by former U.S. flaws notwithstanding, to bring organizations. AYP Highlly Qualifino problems about significant advances ts-all education secretary Rod Paige as Child Left Highly to have ed Teachers One-size-fi in stu- Accountability No C A l claim Behind with NCLB's intention, but beyond dent achievement in the country's a terrorist organization, even Adequate Yearly Progress Sub-groups Inadequate Funding Frame- the National Education Associa- public schools. that they tear it apart, arguing work ClosingasAchievement Gapsers of education organi- Unfunded Mandate a relatively restrained Qualified AYP Highly Q t ion takes L ea d that it isn't effective as it should Teachers in part because of inadequate Accountability No Childapproach to NCLB. Paige later be One-size-fits-all Left Behind Adequate Yearly Adequat zat ions seem to recognize that, apologized for an inappropri- funding and unrealistic or unwork- while they freely cite what they Progress ble Sub-groups Inadequate Funding It's Framework words but still Achievement Closing Achie ate choice of think is wrong with the law. a requirements. Gaps Unfunded Mandate critical that Highly state AYP federal and Qualified Teachers NEA used One-size-fits-al One-size maintained that the Most educational groups obstructionist scare tactics in policymakers stay the course and suggest improvements, usually Accountabiliton their own Child Leftnot be swayed by what are often Yearly Progress Sub-groups y No particular Behind Adequate opposing the law. Sub focused Inadequinterests. ate Funding Framework motivated attacks on politically Closing Achievement Gaps supported Unfunde Man- Unfunded We have always closing achievement gaps and T hey all will be laid out in pub- a law that's starting to spark real date AYP Highly Qualified Teachers of kids, Kati AYP One-size-fits-all Accountability No Accountabili enhancing student achievement changes in the lives l ic hearings and intensive behind- Child Lefte-Behind on Capitol Hill Haycock, director of the Education and the environmentInadequate Fund- Lefh scenes lobbying Adequate Yearly Progress Sub-groups Inadequat tt for teaching Trust, declared in a joint statement and learning, says NEA President when the reauthorization process ing Framework Closing Achievement Gaps Unfunded Mandate AYP Highly ramework Qualified Teachers One-size-fits-all Accountability No Child Left Behind Ade- d h O i fi ll bili Child f hi quate Yearly Progress Sub-groups Inadequate Funding Framework43 Closing www.DistrictAdministration.com November 2006 Achievement Gaps Unfunded Mandate AYP Highly Qualified Teachers One- nclbheretostay.indd 43 10/13/06 2:27:18 PM http://www.DistrictAdministration.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of District Administration - November 2006

Contents
Editor's Letter
Update
Inside the Law
Curriculum Update
Administrator Profile
District Profile
SAT Trends
Broad awards top urban prize
Boston's Perseverance
NCLB's Purity
Why No Child Left Behind is here to stay
COVER STORY: Is Bill Gates a Good School Leader?
Does K-12 Make Sense?
Arthur Levine on teacher education
An IEP for every student?
Teacher Education: Time to Tame the Wild West
The Individual Academic Plan
Speaking Out
David Thornburg on
Professional Opinion
Problem/Solution
Research Corner
Computer Literature
New Products
By the Numbers

District Administration - November 2006