NC pilots test program
North Carolina is one of only two states approved to change how student progress is measured under the federal No Child Left Behind law.
The Education Department announced last week that North Carolina and Tennessee may track how individual students perform in math and reading over time as opposed to tracking year-to-year performance, which compares different groups of students.
North Carolina already includes a growth model (looking at individual student success year to year vs. comparing different students as a whole year to year) as part of its ABCs of Public Education testing program.
While we're talking about No Child Left Behind: Schools are still struggling to meet NCLB's "highly qualified teacher" requirement.
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Jennifer,
It was mentioned in the HP paper that NCLB was changing and that offerring tutoring would be required in year 1 of sanctions with opt out schools to follow in year 2 and 3 as opposed to the current system which offers opt out in year 1 and 2 and tutoring in year 3. Do you know anything about this and when it would go into effect?
Posted on May 22, 2006 10:30 PM
In order to offer opt-out schools for students, a school must be Title I and have not met AYP for 2 consecutive years. That's the current law - not year 1.
Posted on May 23, 2006 8:45 AM