Fwd: Materials to help in overhauling NCLB

[Susan Harman <susanharman@igc.org>]

Begin forwarded message:

  From: "Monty Neill" <monty@fairtest.org>

  Date: Fri Apr 6, 2007 9:13:00 AM US/Pacific

  To: "Neill, Monty" <monty@fairtest.org>

  Subject: Materials to help in overhauling NCLB

  Reply-To: "Monty Neill" <monty@fairtest.org>

  As you are active in various ways to help overhaul NCLB, and you may not be
  on any of FairTest's lists, I am attaching some materials relevant to the
  overhaul, and including also the links to where these things are on the web:

  In particular, if you are working on legislative proposals, please review the
  detailed the Forum on Educational Accountability (FEA) legislative proposal.
  It redefines/reframes accountability, removes the 2014 'all proficient' goal,
  completely redefines 'adequate progress,' reduces testing and the stakes
  attached to it, proposes a major program to bolster local assessments, makes
  professional development under local control a key part of NCLB, strengthens
  parent involvement and support for family literacy, and redefines how
  accountability processes work.

  We hope very much you will essentially adopt and use the FEA legislative
  proposal in your work.

  - Forum on Educational Accountability full legislative proposal and
  summary at http://www.fairtest.org/FEA_Home.html .

  - 'Redefining Accountability,' a report from FEA at
  http://www.fairtest.org/FEA_Home.html 

  - Joint Organizational Statement on NCLB, now signed by 116 education, civil
  rights, religious, disability and civic organizations representing, after
  deducting for overlap, more than 50 million people. The FEA materials are
  based on the Joint Statement.
  http://www.fairtest.org/joint%20statement%20civil%20rights%20grps%2010-21-04.html

  - action alert http://www.fairtest.org/nattest/ActTodayNCLB0407.html 

  Thanks a lot, and please feel free to contact me for further information or
  to discuss use of these materials.

  Monty

  Monty Neill, Ed.D.

  Co-Executive Director, FairTest

  Chair, Forum on Educational Accountability

  342 Broadway

  Cambridge, MA 02139

  617-864-4810    fax 617-497-2224

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