My friend said to me, “I missed the President’s speech. What’d he say? Give me hope.”
Ok.
He talked a lot about jobs.
She said, “Jobs? Give me hope about schools!”
I reminded her that he gave us a down-payment on his promise to make education a priority by not only including jobs protection in the [...]
Posts under ‘No Child Left Behind’
State of the Hopeful Union
Tiny Bubbles
They’re the kids who didn’t quite hit the cut score on the No Child Left tests the previous year. Or those that just barely hit it. The goal was to get off the Adequate Yearly Progress Shame List where her school had been placed because not enough of their students had hit the cut score
