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Direct linkHoff, David J. – Education Week, 2008
Six years after the No Child Left Behind Act became law, many states still haven't completed one of its most important tasks: establishing a testing system that meets the law's requirement that they track all students' progress toward proficiency in reading and math. Although the progress has been slow, U.S. Department of Education officials and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Testing
Hoff, David J. – Education Week, 2008
This article reports on plans by the Bush administration to set a uniform way for states to calculate and report their graduation rates, which could make it harder for high schools to avoid accountability measures under the No Child Left Behind Act. In the U.S. Department of Education's latest move to refine the implementation of the NCLB law,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Federal Legislation, Dropouts
Hoff, David J. – Education Week, 2007
All states that meet federal criteria will now be allowed to take part in the U.S. Department of Education's 2-year-old experiment with "growth models," which let states measure individual students' achievement gains as a way of ensuring accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act. After originally capping participation at 10…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Pilot Projects, Academic Achievement, Accountability
Hoff, David J. – Education Week, 2006
The top executive of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) has announced that he will leave his post in 2006 at the end of the summer, giving the group time to plan a lobbying strategy for the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act with a new director. G. Thomas Houlihan, the CCSSO's executive director since 2001, said that…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Professional Associations, Administrators, Federal Legislation
Hoff, David J. – Education Week, 2005
North Carolina says it graduates 97 percent of its high school students, while Washington state reports it gives diplomas to just 66 percent. But researchers, using methods they believe are more accurate, estimate that the two states' graduation rates are essentially the same, at around 64 percent. Acknowledging that such disparities in data are…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Change, Graduation Rate, Graduation
Hoff, David J. – Education Week, 2005
In her most noteworthy policy speech since taking office in January, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings outlined how she would give states new flexibility to implement the 3-year-old law. The Department of Education will entertain proposals from states to waive rules under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The department also will…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Politics of Education, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Accountability
