tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10714989.post-1142914660693385412006-03-20T19:42:00.000-08:002006-03-23T15:25:54.003-08:00I recently recieved a "<a href="http://www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml"><span style="color:#3366ff;">NCLB</span></a> Alert" newsletter from <a href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html"><span style="color:#3366ff;">edweek.org</span></a>, the Education Week magazine website.<br /><br />The alert includes a "tracker" that features stories about NCLB. I would show all you fine people more of them, but the website only allows two articles per week.<br /><br />Here ya' go:<br /><a href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2006/03/01/25ell.h25.html?levelId=1000&amp;levelId=1000"><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">�No Child� Effect on English-Learners Mulled</span></a><br /><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Educators who specialize in teaching English-language learners agree that the 4-year-old No Child Left Behind Act has brought unprecedented attention to those students by requiring schools to isolate test-score data for them. They disagree, though, on whether changes in instruction spurred by the law have been positive or negative overall.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2006/03/01/25bush-adjunct.h25.html?levelId=1000"><span style="color:#3366ff;">�Adjunct Teachers� Could Do End Run Around NCLB Act</span></a><br /><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">A White House proposal to bring math, science, and engineering professionals into public high schools to teach those subjects could bypass the �highly qualified� teacher mandate under the No Child Left Behind Act, while only temporarily easing the shortfall of mathematics and science teachers, education observers say.</span><br /><br />More articles will be avalible next week! <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"></span>Nick Shorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983538794601700356noreply@blogger.com