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Senate passes overhaul of No Child Left Behind

 

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Education | TheHill

 

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Senate passes overhaul of No Child Left Behind

 

 

Supporters of the Senate bill said the overhaul gets rid of the teach-to-the-test mentality that they argue has dominated public schools since No Child Left Behind's inception.

 

 

The Hill‎ - By Jordain Carney July 16, 2015

 

 

The Senate on Thursday passed an overhaul of the No Child Left Behind education law, an action that senators on both sides of the aisle agreed was long overdue.

 

Senators voted 81-17 to pass the Every Child Achieves Act, which transfers more decision-making power to state and local authorities.

 

While No Child Left Behind was passed under former President George W. Bush, the weeklong debate in the Senate over changes to the law was among the least divisive of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) six-month tenure as majority leader.

 

He touted the legislation as the latest example that his party has been able to get the Senate working again ahead of the 2016 elections.

"The pundits told us it would never happen. Republicans and Democrats will never agree on a way to replace No Child Left Behind, they said. But a new Senate that’s back to work is proving them wrong," McConnell said.

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Investing in what works for education | TheHill

Jul 7, 2015 - America’s students face stiff competition from classmates and from around the world. Today’s job market is shaped by an increasingly competitive global economy, and government budgets at all levels are under increased pressure to do more with less. With all of these challenges, how do we best prepare American students for success?

We believe America must invest in what works. Across the country, there are brilliant students, dedicated teachers, and groundbreaking schools making real progress. We should support their accomplishments by helping all schools and districts innovate and adopt approaches that enable American students to succeed. By supporting measures that increase the availability and use of data-driven solutions to our schools’ most pressing problems, federal lawmakers can help encourage our nation’s educators to find the most successful, impactful ways to increase student learning. 

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Congress must not reverse course on education | TheHill

This week, both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate may vote on the rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). First passed in 1965, it is now commonly known as the No Child Left Behind Act, signed into law in 2002. The next chapter in the story of American education is about to be written. We may represent the polar ends of the education system — a former chairman of the House Education Committee and a former classroom teacher — but we have a shared belief that now is the opportunity to get it right.

In 1965, the federal government got involved because the political pressures at all levels of education worked against poor and minority children. Unfortunately, political pressures in education still work against poor and minority children — in terms of access to rigorous curriculum, effective teachers, funding, fair discipline policies, college and wrap-around services. Teachers know acutely how all of the current systems and political pressures work most profoundly against the students for whom the ESEA was meant in the first place.

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Online classrooms resetting education | TheHill

 

Lawmakers are singing the praises of new online courses that are reducing costs and freeing students from the constraints of the classroom.

The increase in online courses has been particularly pronounced at colleges and universities, which are using new technology to attract non-traditional students who need the ability to juggle other responsibilities.

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