March 9, 2011 4:53 PM - U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is warning Congress that unless changes are made to a key facet of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the country is on track to see 82 percent of its schools labeled "failing" this year.
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Testifying on the pending reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act, the current version of ESEA, the education secretary said: "Four out of five schools in America may not meet their goals under NCLB by next year. The consequences under the current law are very clear: States and districts all across America may have to intervene in more and more schools each year, implementing the exact same interventions regardless of schools' individual needs."
Read the whole story by Michele McNeil - Ed Week |http://bit.ly/ggZ6aR
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Testifying on the pending reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act, the current version of ESEA, the education secretary said: "Four out of five schools in America may not meet their goals under NCLB by next year. The consequences under the current law are very clear: States and districts all across America may have to intervene in more and more schools each year, implementing the exact same interventions regardless of schools' individual needs."
Read the whole story by Michele McNeil - Ed Week |http://bit.ly/ggZ6aR