Both the Washington Post and the New York Times are reporting that President Obama wants higher reading and math standards to ensure students are college and career ready as part of the bipartisan reform of the nation’s primary federal education law, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) – currently known as No Child Left Behind.
The Washington Post said:
The committee’s first hearing will focus on charter schools and will be held on February 24, 2010.
The Washington Post said:
President Obama will seek to raise academic standards across the country by requiring states to certify that their benchmarks for reading and mathematics put students on track for college or a career, administration officials said Sunday.That matches the testimony that the Committee heard in December and what Chairman Miller said last June:
The proposal, part of Obama's evolving blueprint for a revision of the No Child Left Behind law, was expected to be released Monday as the president meets with governors in Washington. It will give a further boost to a state-led movement toward common standards, a groundbreaking development for a public education system in which current expectations for students vary widely from coast to coast.
We won’t be able to build the world-class education system our economy needs and our children deserve unless all students are taught to internationally-benchmarked standards that prepare them for college and good jobs and to compete in a 21st century global economy.However, this is just one aspect of the larger goal of an open and transparent effort to rewrite No Child Left Behind. It will start with a series of hearings in the coming weeks to explore the challenges and opportunities ahead as we work to ensure an excellent education is available to every student in America.
The committee’s first hearing will focus on charter schools and will be held on February 24, 2010.
