Superintendents Suggest Fixes For 'No Child'
Some Support National Testing Standards
By Jay Mathews
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 1, 2007; B01
The superintendents of the Washington area's two largest school systems say national standards are needed to measure achievement among public school students, a sharp contrast to other educators who are asking that the federal government have less involvement in the schools, not more.
The support for national tests from the superintendents in Fairfax and Montgomery counties, as well as the superintendent and School Board of Arlington County, is one of the most surprising messages being sent to Congress by area educators hoping to influence efforts to revise the five-year-old No Child Left Behind law.
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Some local school leaders say they would like to expand the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a federally financed sampling of student progress, to create a national learning standard. Arlington officials suggest that a revised federal law include a much larger sample of students so that the achievement tests would be given to all school systems and every school. This year's test was given to about 700,000 students.
Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/30/AR2007093001503_pf.html
October 3, 2007
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