Monthly Archives: January 2012
Supplemental Educational Services Works
Congress is debating which parts of No Child Left Behind works and which don’t. The law needs revisions, but we have evidence that one critically important component that does not get a lot of attention, Supplemental Education Services (SES), works. Supplemental Educational Services (SES) is a funding source for free tutoring for low-income students attending failing schools. For more [...]
Effective ESEA Reauthorization
On Sunday January 8, 2012, Secretary Arne Duncan wrote an Op-Ed piece in the Washington Post calling for reauthorization of No Child Left Behind. See the article at (http://www.ed.gov/blog/2012/01/after-10-years-it%e2%80%99s-time-for-a-new-nclb/). No Child Left Behind was supposed to be reauthorized in 2008, but Congress is still dragging its feet with regards to the legislation’s reauthorization. Some legislators [...]
Effective ESEA Reauthorization
On Sunday January 8, 2012, Secretary Arne Duncan wrote an Op-Ed piece in the Washington Post calling for reauthorization of No Child Left Behind. See the article at (http://www.ed.gov/blog/2012/01/after-10-years-it%e2%80%99s-time-for-a-new-nclb/). No Child Left Behind was supposed to be reauthorized in 2008, but Congress is still dragging its feet with regards to the legislation’s reauthorization. Some legislators [...]