Morning Announcements: May 12, 2011
In his School of Thought blog with TIME magazine, Andrew Rotherham answers the question, "Why the Hispanic Student Crisis Is Going Ignored".
The National Education Association officials announced that they would put a policy statement before the union's governing body for approval that, among other changes, would open the door to the use of "valid, reliable, high-quality standardized tests," in combination with multiple other measures, for evaluating teachers, Education Week reports.
The Christian Science Monitor reports that President Obama will deliver a commencement address to Students at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, Tennessee as part of the Race to the Top Commencement Challenge.
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The US Supreme Court decided against hearing Connecticut’s challenge to the federal No Child Left Behind law yesterday, ending the state’s six-year lawsuit over how to pay for the stepped-up student testing considered one of the law’s cornerstones, the 