While the “Damn the Testing Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead” crowd insists that every letter of No Child Left Behind remains unchanged, the forces pointing out the educational ship of state is taking on water rapidly and needs to enter port for repairs grow by the day.
Education Week reports [$] that 50 of the 56 state “teachers of the year” have signed on to a letter calling for meaningful changes in the law. [Yes, we know there are 50 states – the group also includes jurisdictions like Puerto Rico and Washington DC].
Says Education Week,
Many of the changes they are seeking—recasting the definition of a “highly qualified” teacher and using growth models that measure school progress based on the improvement each student makes over the course of the year, among them—are similar to the wish lists put out by the two national teachers’ unions for the NCLB reauthorization.
