Critics Float‘No Child’ Revisions Hoping for amendments as early as next year, critics of the No Child Left Behind Act have begun to circulate proposals for fixing what they view as major flaws in the law's accountability provisions. (Education Week, Aug. 11, 2004.)
Court Rejects Seattle PolicyWeighing Race Legal experts see a federal appeals court decision striking down Seattle’s system for assigning students to high school as a significant development in the debate over what districts can voluntarily do to promote demographic diversity in the post-desegregation era.
PLUS... Kerry aiming for center on education ... AFT resolves Chicago election dispute ...Prayers at municipal meetings invalidated ... Urban districts combat dropout rates ... Texans wrangle over contraception in textbooks ... Digital games merge learning with fun ... Researchers
question federal clearinghouse choices ... Ed. dept. providing teacher training ... Southern states see progress toward goals ... and the culinary arts gain popularity.
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