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Notes from the Field Blog Jan. 27, 2011

Voucher Rally: The Wrong Kind of Civics Lesson

Submitted by Frank Murphy, Jan. 27, 2011

Pennsylvania school choice advocates staged a rally this past Tuesday in Harrisburg.  They gathered in order to demonstrate their support for the passage Pennsylvania State Senate Bill 1.  If enacted, this proposed legislation would establish a school voucher program for low-income children in the state of Pennsylvania.

The merits of Senate Bill 1 should be the subject of a civil and thoughtful debate within the legislative chambers of our Government.

http://cityschoolstories.com/2011/01/27/notes-from-the-field-17/

2009 NAEP Science Results and Coverage

http://keystonestateeducationcoalition.blogspot.com/2011/01/2009-naep-science-results-and-coverage.html

Education Week Politics K-12 Blog

Duncan, Key Senators Sing Off Same Page on ESEA Renewal

By Alyson Klein on January 26,

The ESEA Bipartisan Ship is still sailing the day after the State of the Union.

Three of the four members of the U.S. Senate's "Big 8" on education policy, along with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, told reporters today that they intend to move quickly and collaboratively on a bill that fixes some of the key issues with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, whose current incarnation is the nine-year-old No Child Left Behind Act.

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2011/01/that_statement_plus_speaker_of.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+PoliticsK12wapo+(For+Widget+-+Politics+K-12)

Obama seeks to make No Child Left Behind more flexible

By Nick Anderson

Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, January 26, 2011

North Chevy Chase Elementary School, with a demanding curriculum, strong faculty and high student test scores, meets nobody's definition of a failure. Nobody's, that is, except the federal government's.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/26/AR2011012606752.html