Monday, June 02, 2008

US Dept of Education waters down teacher quality guidelines in NCLB

US Dept of Education waters down teacher quality guidelines in NCLB

San Francisco, CA – A coalition of parents, students, community groups, and legal advocates today sued the United States Department of Education...
A major loophole in NCLB defies the will of Congress and harms students nationwide by defining teachers still in training as “highly qualified."
... More than half of California’s interns are teaching in schools with 90­% students of color compared to only 3% of interns in schools with the lowest population of students of color...

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