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...many other proposals, the Joint Organizational Statement on NCLB stands out for its power to attract widespread support. The statement has been endorsed by 129 national education, civil rights, disability, civic and labor organizations, representing 50 million Americans. The groups recommend that Congress replace arbitrary and unrealistic "adequate yearly progress" requirements with reasonable expectations for improvement, reduce testing mandates, ensure the use of multiple measures instead of one-size-fits-all tests, remove counterproductive sanctions and greatly increase funding. The NCLB should require and provide support for schools to take reasonable steps to improve educational quality...
...public school teacher and mother of a Marine, I read with equal interest about NCLB and "One Day in Iraq." It is ironic that I will lose my job if I fail to meet President George W. Bush's NCLB benchmarks for progress in my class, yet his Administration squanders our tax dollars and children's lives and tells us we have no right to expect accountability and progress with its protracted war in Iraq...
...filmmaker Byron Hurt. These events, and many others made our first year exciting, interesting, sometimes controversial, and never dull. The HCWC will continue to be responsive to the issues that matter to students, and it will continue to keep its ear to the ground for the sound of future progress...
...whose book “Our Underachieving Colleges” had become required reading for professors and set the stage for the review, was dissatisfied with its progress. In March of last year, he sat down with a few of the review’s leaders, including English professor Louis Menand, philosophy professor Alison Simmons, and Pilbeam...
...represent a long-term trend. "It will periodically spike up, like we saw with violence in May," says Bergner, who stressed that the overall level of violence in Baghdad has lowered since January. Nevertheless, he says, "that doesn't mean it's going to be a steady, downward trajectory." Progress, Bergner explains, will continue to appear uneven for some time...