At Huffington Post: Turnaround 2.0: Solutions in Pre-K to Third Grade to Help...
In a post for the Huffington Post's Education blog, I wrote about the Early Education Initiative's event on January 14 that highlighted three promising strategies for turning around low-performing...
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Final Webinar in PreK-3rd Series: Policies for Scaling Up Reforms
For nearly a year, the PreK-3rd Grade National Work Group has hosted free webinars on how to reduce the achievement gap by focusing on children’s early years: pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, first,...
View ArticleDon’t Forget Full-Day Kindergarten
An under-examined aspect of President Obama’s new early childhood education plan is his proposal to encourage states to create more full-day kindergarten seats – though only after states are able to...
View ArticleWhiplash: From Last Week’s Hope to the Prospect of Deep Funding Cuts
The early education world is about to suffer some serious whiplash. Last week was a time of excitement and hope, as President Obama announced his proposal for expanding preschool. This week the mood is...
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Waiver Watch: Deep in the Heart of Texas
Texas has joined Pennsylvania, Wyoming, and 46 other states (including Washington, D.C.) in seeking waivers from No Child Left Behind (NCLB). With Nebraska and Montana sitting out, Vermont and North...
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First Look: Sen. Harkin’s Strengthening America’s Schools Act
Yesterday, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released yet another attempt to reauthorize No Child Left Behind: the Strengthening America’s...
View ArticleSen. Harkin’s New ESEA Bill Includes Provisions for the Primary Grades, PreK-3rd
Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), the chair of the Senate committee on education, introduced legislation yesterday to update the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, known for years as No Child Left...
View ArticleHarkin Title I Reforms Readjust Funding Allocations
This week, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Tom Harkin (D-IA) released a new draft bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)....
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Harkin, Alexander, and Waivers: Your ESEA Markup Cheat Sheet
Tomorrow morning, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will markup the Strengthening America’s Schools Act, the latest ESEA reauthorization proposal from Chairman Tom Harkin...
View ArticleStorify: Senate HELP Committee ESEA Markup
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Update: A New NCLB Reauthorization Cheat Sheet
After the partisan markup in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, it is the House of Representatives' turn to debate reauthorization of No Child Left Behind. The Student Success...
View ArticleStorify: House Ed & Workforce Committee ESEA Markup
Click here for the Storify of last week's Senate HELP Committee markup.[&lt;a href="//storify.com/claremccann/house-education-and-workforce-committee-esea-marku" target="_blank"&gt;View...
View ArticleStorify: House Ed & Workforce Committee ESEA Markup
On Wednesday, the House Education & Workforce Committee convened to debate Chairman John Kline's (R-MN) proposed Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization. Ranking Member George Miller...
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Senate Appropriations Panel Approves 2014 Spending Bill
For more details on early education in the Senate Appropriations Committee Labor-HHS-Education bill, check out this post from our sister blog, Early Ed Watch.The Senate Appropriations Committee voted...
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Senate Panel Approves New Early Education Funding for 2014
For more details on the Senate Appropriations Committee Labor-HHS-Education bill, check out this post from our sister blog, Ed Money Watch.The Senate Appropriations Committee voted last week to approve...
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Student Success Act Superlatives: the Best (and Worst) Additions to the House...
Following the world’s speediest markup, the House of Representatives could begin floor debate on the Student Success Act, the House Republican proposal to rewrite No Child Left Behind (NCLB), tomorrow....
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The Federal Role in Education: Mend it, Don’t End It
A few weeks ago I asked, “if Congress agrees the era of big government is over, why can’t we get an ESEA deal?” Both the Senate Democrats’ and House Republicans’ proposals to rewrite the No Child Left...
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Storify: House 'No Child Left Behind' Debate
This post also appeared on our sister blog, Ed Money Watch.On July 18 and 19, members of the U.S. House of Representatives took to the floor for a heated debate on a proposed reauthorization of the No...
View ArticleStorify: House 'No Child Left Behind' Debate
This post also appeared on our sister blog, Early Ed Watch.On July 18 and 19, members of the U.S. House of Representatives took to the floor for a heated debate on a proposed reauthorization of the No...
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Waiver Watch: Let the Renewal Games Begin
As Ed Money Watch previously reported, the U.S. Department of Education has placed three states – Kansas, Oregon, and Washington – on “high risk” status for their ESEA waiver plans related to new...
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