http://jaypgreene.com/2009/04/29/forward-our-motto/ With Help From Some Friends Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:51:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://jaypgreene.com/2009/04/29/forward-our-motto/#comment-8585 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:03:12 +0000 http://jaypgreene.com/?p=3342#comment-8585 [...] The accountability testing movement accomplished a lot of good in the 1990s. If you look outside the Beltway to states and cities, you’ll see why in 2001 people like me thought NCLB would end up doing a lot more good than it actually did. NCLB was drawing inspiration from state and local reforms that had really worked. In places like Florida, where test-based accountability systems were well implemented and the politicians were willing to stand up to the blob, they got great results. [...]

]]> http://jaypgreene.com/2009/04/29/forward-our-motto/#comment-4682 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:36:35 +0000 http://jaypgreene.com/?p=3342#comment-4682 http://npri.org/docLib/20090318_Failure_Is_No_Longer_an_Option.pdf

]]> http://jaypgreene.com/2009/04/29/forward-our-motto/#comment-4681 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:36:14 +0000 http://jaypgreene.com/?p=3342#comment-4681 Same thing in Nevada too: http://npri.org/publications/failure-is-no-longer-an-option (also a study by Matt Ladner) except Florida’s low-income Hispanic students beat the average of all students in Nevada.

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