Afternoon Announcements: Annual Testing Front and Center as ESEA Rewrite Continues
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January 30, 2015 12:00 pm

As Congress undertakes its most serious effort to rewrite the No Child Left Behind education law, backlash against standardized testing has prompted vigorous debate about whether the federal government should continue requiring annual exams. The Washington Post
In the education world, you see this phrase all the time: “free and reduced-price lunch.” What’s the percentage at a given school? It’s not necessarily out of concern about who’s getting fed. Instead, its most often used to talk about concentrations of poverty and how that effects learning. NPR
Whether it is youth here or youth abroad, student unrest seems to be growing in our most uneducated communities. Data shows an increased correlation between a lack of education and crime, poverty and social welfare programs. Education News
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