Some in Indiana Say “New” No Child Left Behind Is No Improvement
February 22, 2012 | 3:08 PM
Later this month, Ohio plans to ask the U.S. Department of Education for permission to be set free from some requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. (Read more about Ohio’s plans here.)
Ten states, including Indiana, have already received permission from the feds to break with the No Child Left Behind blueprint. But our colleagues at StateImpact Indiana say “observers of diverse ideological stripes” doubt that the Indiana’s system is better than the old one.
Lafayette Community Schools superintendent Ed Eiler: What we’ve done is substitute one unworkable set of laws, rules and regualtions, and deferred it to the decisions of the state — which has now an equally flawed set of rules and regulations. I think it’s rather curious that part of the rhetoric from Washington, DC, was that it would help reduce the importance of standardized tests, yet if you look at the state model in Indiana, if anything, the importance of standardized testing has been increased.
Read more at: stateimpact.npr.org