Congressional Hearing and No Child Left Behind

Experts Tell Congress About Alternative Methods for Measuring Student Progress Under No Child Left Behind

At a House Education and Labor Committee hearing today, education experts offered specific ideas for changing the way states and schools measure schools’ progress under the federal No Child Left Behind law. Under the law, states are required to set benchmarks each year for the share of students who can read and do math at grade level. If the percentage of a school’s students who are proficient does not meet these annual benchmarks, then the school does not make adequate yearly progress. The experts at today’s hearing all testified that there may be more accurate and fair methods that to help schools measure their progress.
Source: U.S. House of Representatives Education and Labor committee