Fw:Good article on NCLB that mentions the joint statement.

["Monty Neill" <monty@fairtest.org>]

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For a newspaper article, fairly lengthy and detailed
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Bonner County Daily Bee: Coalition calls for overhaul of law
(David Gunter, News, Idaho) 
"As of this week, almost 145 national organizations -- including the national PTA, nearly every church denomination and prominent civil rights groups -- have signed on to a Joint Organizational Statement on No Child Left behind sent to Congress with suggested changes to the existing legislation.

"Among the concerns listed in the statement are "over-emphasizing standardized testing, narrowing curriculum and instruction to focus on test preparation rather than richer academic learning; over-identifying schools in need of improvement; using sanctions that do not help improve schools; inappropriately excluding low-scoring children in order to boost test results; and inadequate funding."




Joel Packer
Director, Education Policy and Practice 
NEA
202-822-7329
202-255-0915 (cell)
202-822-7482 (fax)
JPacker@nea.org

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