a href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/06/17/36cep.h28.html?tkn=UUBFQh8DL1GCnLW6SE7JRz21KJo3MPS1ixXM"Education Week:/abr /br /blockquotepSince the No Child Left Behind Act was enacted, critics have questioned whether the law’s mandate to bring students to "proficiency" has resulted in schools ignoring the needs of the nation’s highest- and lowest-achieving students./p pA new study, released today, suggests those fears have not become reality./p pa href="http://www.cep-dc.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=document_ext.showDocumentByIDamp;nodeID=1amp;DocumentID=280"The 50-state analysis/a found that test scores for both "advanced" and "basic" students rose in nearly three-quarters of assessments studied across states and grade levels, a level of progress only slightly lower than that of students reaching proficiency./p pThe study sought to examine a story line put forward in recent years—namely, that schools are not focusing on the highest- or lowest-scoring students, but rather on middle achievers, said Jack Jennings, the president of the Center on Education Policy, which produced the report./pp...br //p/blockquoteI suspect this is disappointing news to Democrats and the teachers' unions who are reluctant to give President Bush credit for anything, particularly if it is positive. I suspect they will still try to kill the program, because they do not like any testing that suggest the teacher may not be doing their job.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5051247-1579206408136790663?l=prairiepundit.blogspot.com'//div
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