Alliance Alert

	MythBuster Lots of people claim No Child Left Behind means the feds have taken over the schools. Not quite.
	It's Being Done At Lapwai Elementary in the northern neck of Idaho, where 62 percent of the students are poor and 80 percent are Nez Perce, 100 percent of the fourth-graders met state math standards this year and 94 percent met state reading standards.
	What's New The nation’s cities – some of them, at least – are improving faster than their states; U.S. Department of Ed will allow as many as ten states to experiment with “growth models;” The National Education Association’s lawsuit against No Child Left Behind is dismissed; A new study confirms the importance of a strong curriculum and the use of student data to inform instruction; and Education Trust honors schools profiled in Alliance Alert.
The Achievement Alliance The Achievement Alliance was founded to provide accurate, non-partisan information about student achievement and No Child Left Behind. It is a project of the following organizations: Business Roundtable Citizens Commission on Civil Rights Education Trust National Center for Educational Accountability National Council of La Raza	Other Voices The New York Times on the dismissal of the NEA lawsuit; The Washington Post on the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress scores; and IBM Executive Vice President N. M. Donofrio on innovation as the driver of a strong economy and education as the driver of innovation.