Education Next – Paul E. Peterson
“So why not use the power of the federal government to collect even more specific information on student learning? A giant step in the right direction was taken with NCLB’s original passage. When it is reauthorized, further steps need to be made so that accurate information on knowledge gained each year in each classroom is available to every parent. And to receive federal dollars, districts must give parents the freedom to use this information to select the school of their choice—traditional public, charter, or private.”(more)