Tuesday, February 10, 2009

No Child Left Behind (NCLB)


http://www.wrightslaw.com/nclb/law.htm
Wrightslaw is a page that focuses on special education law and advocacy for students with disabilities, where on can find information and articles about specific educational cases that helped made a difference in today’s education as well as laws, and acts that shape our education system. Their No Child Left Behind section, as mentioned in the page, focuses on “NCLB statute, regulations, guidance publications…, policy letters, and other essential publications from the U. S. Department of Education.” It is a helpful resource whenever one whishes to learn more about NCLB not just the simple overview that everyone else knows, specially if you are a teacher. Learning and understanding what are the guidelines and expectations will greatly help facilitate a teacher’s job.


http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/states/index.html
Ed.gov. is a website from the U.S. Department of Education, where common education topics are presented and discussed. Like other similar pages, they contain a section solemnly for NCLB. It was many options as to what one wishes to read about, from friendly A-Z Index for NCLB, and the progress made by each of the states, to NCLB Policy and statues to Success Story videos. Entering topics such as NCLB Policy takes the reader to a list of option s for Accountability, and Assessment plans, models, reports cards, to Budget, Flexibility and Teacher Quality. Areas like the last mentioned (Teacher Quality) can help and guide teachers to being better prepared to follow the requirements the state and country set forth under NCLB. Additionally, every area has a different advantage that will help not only teachers, but school faculty and staff better apply NCLB in their campus and among their teachers.


http://www.educationsector.org/issues/issues_list.htm?attrib_id=16015
Education Sector is an independent page that primarily focuses on educational policies; either by challenging some of this, improving previous reforms or helping out with new ideas about those new reforms and education ideas. On their ISSUES section, they include a category for K-12 Accountability Systems/NCLB, where they provide a list of research articles, reports, analysis, perspectives and more, all targeting NCLB directly or areas that are influenced or influence NCLB. Interesting enough, the Home page for the site provides an article on President Barack Obama’s education priorities, as outlined by his Education Secretary. One of the mayor aspects of NCLB is accountability, and this page focuses on it by addressing topics such as Yearly Progress, Assessment measures and more. This are good ways of learning about what others think of and how they deal with these issues, how some changes could be made in order to improve these areas and more. It always better to know more than it is necessary about a topic than to lack information for whatever circumstance life may bring.