Mythbuster

Lots of people are questioning whether the new scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress mean that No Child Left Behind. That’s the wrong conclusion to draw.

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

It's Being Done

Centennial Place Elementary, where 65 percent of the students are poor and 90 percent are African American is one of the top elementary schools in Georgia. And there’s no drilling-and-killing anywhere in sight.

What's New

NAEP scores are out, but the real story isn’t in the disappointing overall scores but in the hopeful signs in the disaggregated data. Also – the National Academy of Sciences has issued an urgent call to action, saying that we need 10,000 high-quality math and science teachers ASAP.

Other Voices

The president of the University of Vermont went to China and found the future: “focused, determined, intense, inevitable;” The Burlington Free Press allows as how No Child Left Behind has resulted in schools becoming more focused on achievement; and Jay Mathews reports on one parent who has found No Child Left Behind helpful for her child who requires special education services.