ESEA Reauthorization

NBCT Laurie Calvert: A Teacher's Guide to Fixing No Child Left Behind

NBCT and Washington Teacher Ambassador Fellow at the US Department of Education Laurie Calvert has released a YouTube video that discusses the issues surrounding ESEA and its reauthorization.

NBPTS Releases Comments on the Secretary's Priorities for Discretionary Grant Programs

NBPTS submitted comments on the definitions of "highly effective teacher," "highly effective principal," and "student achievement" proposed in the guidelines for the Secretary of Education's Priorities for Discretionary Grant Programs.  The comments were submitted in response to a Federal Register notice.  The Secretary's proposal would focus Federal financial assistance on expanding the number of programs and projects Department-wide that support teacher effectiveness activities in areas of greatest educational need, beginning in fiscal year 2011.

Governor Bob Wise: An Update on ESEA Reauthorization

In the first of a series of interactive webinars about what is happening in education reform in Washington, DC, Governor Bob Wise, chairman of the Board of Directors for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and president of the Alliance for Excellent Education,provides an update on ESEA Reauthorization.

NBPTS Releases 2010 ESEA Blueprint Webinar Transcript and Survey Results

After the Department of Education released a blueprint for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, NBPTS and the Department of Education co-hosted a series of webinars to provide information about the Administration's plan and obtain feedback from NBCTS.  The first set of webinars included presentations and Q&A with Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development Carmel Martin and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development Judy Wurtzel.  Materials for the recorded webinars, including the Powerpoint presentation, webinar transcript, and survey results from webinar participants are currently available.  A townhall meeting with the Department of Education to continue the conversation is still under discussion for this summer!   

NBPTS Comments on the US Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Reauthorization

NBPTS offers specific recommendations to the Committee on Education and Labor to include in the legislation to reauthorize ESEA a focus on student learning as well as student achievement, a more complete definition of an effective teacher, standards for effective principals, an emphasis on supporting teachers and educational leaders at every stage of their careers, a commitment to developing the whole child and not just the academic child, and a set of practices to provide meaningful teacher evaluation.    

Bipartisan Effort to Reform ESEA 

Lawmakers have begun the process for reforming the current authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, currently known as No Child Left Behind, with a series of hearings.  A schedule of hearings, videotaped testimony, and transcirpts are available from the House Committee on Education and Labor.  The schdule of hearings for ESEA, with accompany material, for the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is also publicly available.

Groups and stakeholders were invited to send the committee their input and suggestions at eseacomments@mail.house.gov. The deadline for comments was March 26, 2010.

Message from Governor Bob Wise: "ESEA -- Don't Delay"

Governor Bob Wise, chairman of the Board of Directors for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, emphasizes a critical need to reauthorize ESEA in 2010, noting that "NCLB was groundbreaking in 2001; almost a decade later, it is a compact disc in an iPod world."

Reauthorization of ESEA: Why We Can't Wait

In a monthly stakeholder meeting on the reauthorization of ESEA, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called on all education stakeholders to help "build a transformative education law that offers every child the education they want and need—a law that recognizes and reinforces the proper role of the federal government to support and drive reform at the state and local level."