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Education Policy and GovernmentOn ESEA – Elementary and Secondary Education ActWhen the the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 was passed, until 1979 when it was amended, (creating the U.S. Department of Education)David Greene · Jul 26, 2015 · 4 min read
edLeadersFrom NPR: How The Big New Education Law Could Cut Testing TimeBoth houses of Congress have now passed versions of the bill that would update the largest federal education law, known as No Child Left Behind, for the first time since 2001. They are big, meaty and complicated, and now they have to be reconciled into one messy Dagwood sandwich of a bill to go to the president. Read the rest of the story on NPREd.EdCircuit Staff · Jul 23, 2015 · 1 min read
edLeadersU.S. News: Senate approves No Child Left Behind overhaulPhoto credit: Tim Evansonby Jennifer C. Kerr, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — More than a decade after No Child Left Behind established a stronger federal role in public education, the Senate on Thursday approved a rewrite of the much-criticized education law that would return much of that power to the states.Read the rest of the story at U.S. News and World Report.EdCircuit Staff · Jul 17, 2015 · 1 min read
edLeadersNY Times: Lawmakers Move to Limit Government’s Role in Educationby Jennifer Steinhauer and Motoko RichWASHINGTON — Congress on Wednesday moved to substantially scale back the federal government’s role in education, particularly the use of high-stakes standardized testing to punish schools, in the first significant proposed revisions since the No Child Left Behind law was passed 14 years ago.Read the rest of the story at The New York Times.EdCircuit Staff · Jul 10, 2015 · 1 min read
edLeadersFrom Education Week: Senate Braced for Lengthy Debate on ESEAby Lauren CameraAfter weeks of letting it languish in the legislative queue, the U.S. Senate this week is slated to begin debating a proposed bipartisan overhaul of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act—the first such Senate debate since 2001, when Congress last updated the law in its current iteration, the No Child Left Behind Act.Read the rest of the story at Education Week.EdCircuit Staff · Jul 7, 2015 · 1 min read
Education Policy and GovernmentFrom U.S. News: Bridging the Democratic DivideCould Hillary Clinton bring together a party splintered over education policy?by Allie BidwellOutside of local elections, education policy has never been an issue that makes voters flock to the polls. It's just not as sexy as raising or lowering taxes, nor as anxiety-inducing as foreign relations and national security.Read the rest of the story at U.S. News.EdCircuit Staff · Jun 19, 2015 · 1 min read
Education Policy and GovernmentPublic-Private Partnerships: Keeping Schools in ChargePublic private partnerships in education work when a district writes measurable terms and checks them, as research and a 2010 audit show.Mark Claypool · May 28, 2015 · 6 min read
edLeadersForbes: Carly Florina On Education: 6 Things the Presidential Candidate Wants You to Knowby Maureen SullivanCarly Fiorina, the former CEO and chairman of Hewlett-Packard, today announced her run for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. She has never held public office and calls her run a “return to citizen government.” She pokes fun at her undergraduate degree from Stanford in medieval history and philosophy but says it comes in handy when she wants to poke holes in President Obama’s comparison of ISIS terrorism with the Crusades.Read the rest of the story on Forbes.EdCircuit Staff · May 15, 2015 · 1 min read
Education Policy and GovernmentThe Man Behind the Curtain: How Top-Down Politics Are Destroying School Climate and Teacher InnovationDavid Greene shares that former NY Governor Cuomo's education policies fly in the face of what experts cite as elements for successful schools.David Greene · Apr 30, 2015 · 4 min read