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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] S.C. opposition to NCLB
Opposition to NCLB in South Carolina. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted on Mon, Sep. 22, 2003 Panel questions No Child Left Behind law Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. - A panel of Midlands and state educators and lawmakers is questioning the federal No Child Left Behind law. The law set new requirements to measure student performance and raises accountability levels for schools that fail to meet the standards. Under the law, a student can transfer from a school that fails to make annual progress to a school that does. "This is a one-size-fits-all piece of legislation passed by the Congress, and it doesn't fit South Carolina," state Education Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum told a group of about 100 people Sunday at a church here. Tenenbaum and six other panelists were guests at the Columbia Branch of the NAACP's education committee town hall meeting. Members of the panel said they support the concept of measuring performance and requiring accountability, but question the practicality of the law. "Your children are more than any one test, or two tests or three tests," Richland District 1 Superintendent Ronald Epps said. Many on the panel complain that standardized tests are too often looked to as the sole measure of performance. "All students don't learn at the same rate," said Jan McCarthy, president of the South Carolina Education Association. Information from: The State -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2003 AP Wire and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved. http://www.thestate.com Monty Neill, Ed.D. Executive Director FairTest 342 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02139 617-864-4810 fax 617-497-2224 monty@fairtest.org http://www.fairtest.org
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