Congressman Jim Oberstar, the chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has announced that he intends to move the surface transportation bill through his committee and the full House during the month of June. This will be a massive bill. The last highway bill to make it through Congress, known as SAFETEA-LU, authorized [...]
Archive > May 2009
Hope, Engagement and Well-Being
Add hope, engagement and well-being to the top of the list of things we want to see in our young people. A press conference was held in D.C. yesterday to announce the results of the Gallup Student Poll, a new Web-based survey administered anonymously in America’s schools that measures the hope, engagement and well-being of [...]
Re-branding NCLB
In a radio interview earlier this year, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan shared his views on No Child Left Behind. The law “has to be rebranded,” he said. “No Child Left Behind has become toxic.” More from the interview:
What No Child Left Behind did right was it put a spotlight on the achievement gap…. So it gets great [...]
