The NEA Is Fighting for NCLB Overhaul

Autor/in	Packer, Joel
Titel	The NEA Is Fighting for NCLB Overhaul
Quelle	In: Phi Delta Kappan, 89 (2007) 4, S.275-277 (3 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0031-7217
Schlagwörter	Elementary Secondary Education; Federal Legislation; Educational Change; Public Education; Unions + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bundesrecht; Bildungsreform; Öffentliche Erziehung
Abstract	A complex federal law that has been on the books since 1965--upon which are based numerous beneficial programs that provide funding to the nation's education system through a range of complex mechanisms--cannot easily be cast aside as the Educator Roundtable recommends. This article discusses the decision by the National Education Association (NEA) not to support the repeal of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Repealing laws is a lot more complex and involved than the Educator Roundtable implies. As almost 10,000 NEA members decided at their 2006 representative assembly, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the latest version of which is NCLB, does not warrant repeal. The law requires significant attention to its shortcomings in order to make it work on the ground--in America's classrooms. To this end, it has been the NEA's hope that this reauthorization of ESEA would finally offer an opportunity for a renewed, broad, and bold national discussion of how to improve and support public education. Simply put, this reauthorization is and should be about more than tweaking the NCLB portions of ESEA. It should be a comprehensive examination of whether federal policies follow what the research says about how children learn and what makes a successful school. This is the opportunity for a major course correction. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10