Tom Harkin Releases No Child Left Behind Overhaul Plan

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 Tom Harkin Releases No Child Left Behind Overhaul Plan Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) released his draft of the Elementary and Secondary Achievement Act -- known as "No Child Left Behind" -- on Tuesday, defending its much-criticized rollback of federally mandated targets for student performance as a product of compromise. Texas Schools Sue State Over Billions In Funding Faulty Data Wrongly Placed School Among Worst In State Federal Probe: LA Schools Failed To Provide Equal Education For Minority Students Kristen Stewart: "My Teachers Failed Me. Not One, But All Of Them." U.S. Schools Struggle With Basic Human Need BLOG POSTS Alma and Colin Powell: Counting Success One Student, One Community at a Time The volume of conversation about education has increased over the last few years, but what's often lost are the very real stories of the young people whose lives are impacted and the people and programs that are beating the odds. Kurt Wootton: The Beauty of Failure In the now widely-shared commencement speech he gave at Stanford, Steve Jobs points out how three supposed "failures" were necessary in his development as a human being and in his successes. Patricia McGuire: Occupy the Lives of Children in DC Real justice is about service to others, not ourselves. A movement that is only about expressing anger over our own individual hurts will soon disintegrate for lack of an achievable common cause. Susan Ochshorn: Early Learning on the Brain: Policymakers, Take Note As state lawmakers across the country struggle with competing priorities, continuing to slash investment in early learning, it's time to do a little memory recovery, and take a crash course in neuroscience. The synapses of our youngest citizens are firing right now. Rev. Roland Stringfellow: Unfair Opposition of California's FAIR Education Act from Black Pastors The pastors who stand against the FAIR Education Act are creating wedges between clergy and their parishioners who are uncertain how to help young people who self-identify as LGBT.

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