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Legislative UpdateEducation Report: January 11, 2008
Secondary School Reform: January 2008 SecondarySchoolReformJanuary.doc This Week in Washington, December 17, 2007 ThisWeekinWashingtonDecember.doc Education Report, December 14, 2007 EducationReportDecember14200.doc Legislative Watch List, December 13, 2007 LegislativeWatchListDecember.doc This Week in Washington, December 10, 2007 ThisWeekinWashington121007.doc Education Report, December 7, 2007 EducationReportDecember72007.doc This Week in Washington, December 3, 2007 ThisWeekinWashington120307.doc Education Report, November 30, 2007 EducationReportNovember30200.doc Legislative Watch List, November 21, 2007 legislativewatchlistNovember.doc NAEP Assessments in Social Studies Threatened Contact your Congressional Representatives to request that funding for NAEP assessments assures that those related to NCLB-designated core social studies content areas are administered according to the original schedule.
NAGB has eliminated:
Changes in planned testing and administration of the NAEP require significant lead time to accommodate the lengthy process of crafting test questions, selecting representative samples of schools and students, and other preparations, including a decision on whether to proceed with the geography test by February 2008.
Members of Congress have recognized the need for expanded testing and are considering a proposal to administer tests in more states with larger sample sizes in US History and Civics to provide comparative data similar to other NAEP assessed subjects.
Research has well established the impact of assessment on instructional time, including the documented marginalization of social studies teaching and learning in our Nation's classrooms and schools.
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The template outlines the council's broad concerns, although you should feel free to add detail related to your experiences with these programs and how they work at the school level. Lawmakers appreciate hearing how federal funds make a difference in schools.
As you finalize the content of your letter, complete the following:
To complete the address block and finalize your letter, you can find information on your Senators and Representatives—who they are and how to contact them as follows:
For Members of the House of Representatives:
Visit www.house.gov and use the features at the top of the page to either find address information for your Representative or to enter your zip code to determine who your Representative is. Also, if your school is in a district other than where you live, feel free to send a letter to both Representatives. This page will direct you to the web site of the individual Member, and that site will have both address information so that you can complete that on the letter's address block, as well as a fax number for correspondence. (Since mail delivered to Capitol Hill is still subject to irradiation, faxing is the best way to correspond with your Members.) Complete the letter and fax away!
For Senators:
Visit www.senate.gov and use the feature in the upper right hand corner to find your state's senators. The results will give you office address information to complete the address block on the template letter, and web site information for you to determine the appropriate fax number for sending the letter to the office.
It is important for lawmakers to hear—repeatedly—how important these investments are!
Please send an electronic copy of your letters to NCSS staff at apost@ncss.org or fax to 301-588-2049 to Ana Post so we can gauge the impact of our advocacy. CongressionalLetterTemplate.rtf Education Report, October 5, 2007 EducationReportOct52007.doc This Week in Washington, October 1, 2007 ThisWeekOct12007.doc This Week in Washington, Sept 24, 2007 ThisWeekSept242007.doc Education Report, Sept 21, 2007 educationreportSept212007.doc This Week in Washington, Sept 17, 2007 ThisWeekSept172007.doc Legislative Watch List, Sept 13, 2007 LegislativeWatchListSept1320.doc This Week in Washington, Sept 10, 2007 ThisWeekSept102007.doc Education Report, Sept. 7, 2007 educationreportSept72007.doc Legislative Watch List, August 30, 2007 August302007.doc NCSS Response to Draft of Title I of ESEA September 2007 September 5, 2007
The Honorable George Miller
The Honorable Howard P. McKeon
Dear Chairman Miller and Ranking Member McKeon:
Your recent release of a discussion draft for Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) represents tremendous work from you, Members of the Committee, and staff. The draft reflects your willingness to listen to education stakeholders and your desire to improve upon existing law. National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) applauds the effort and thanks you for your service; we look forward to continuing to work with you as the reauthorization process moves forward.
NCSS is the largest association in the country devoted solely to social studies education; we define social studies as “the integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence.” With members in all the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 69 foreign countries, NCSS serves as an umbrella organization for elementary, secondary, and college teachers of social studies and the disciplines it embodies, including four core disciplines, as defined in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: civics and government, history, economics and geography. The mission of the Council is to provide leadership, service and support for all social studies educators. These educators provide students with knowledge and historical perspective, intellectual skills and civic values needed to fulfill the duties of citizenship in a participatory democracy. It is through this lens that we offer comments on the discussion draft.
As you know, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is a law that has had an enormous impact on public education throughout the nation and has brought vital focus to the need to define school wide academic success as success for every child. NCSS wholeheartedly endorses this goal, but believes the law can be both strengthened and improved. The discussion draft of Title I prompts us to preliminarily raise the following points:
Multiple Indicators/Assessments and Core Curriculum Development
NCSS is pleased that the draft proposes to include a number of additional measures in options offered states in their efforts to meet the accountability requirements of the Act, and supports the proposed changes included in Section 1111(b)(2)(E)(iii). The use of multiple, state-developed assessments in subjects other than reading and math, in addition to other indicators of school progress, would begin to address our members’ concerns that social studies is getting short shrift in the classroom. We have been concerned that current law leads to the unintended consequence of a narrowing of the curriculum that pushes social studies out of the school day. The July 2007 report of the Center on Education Policy reports that 36% of elementary school districts surveyed reported decreasing instructional time for social studies (an average of 76 minutes per week). This concern is supported by research completed by our North Carolina affiliate that shows that in 2007, only 11 states test social studies in the elementary grades, whereas, in 1998, 30 states tested social studies. We believe that allowing the limited use of alternative assessments and indicators will stem this trend, and are grateful for this proposal. In particular, we are pleased that assessments in history and civics and government have been included in the range of multiple indicators. We urge you to consider including assessments in geography and economics among these options as well, as we support efforts to promote “global awareness” as embraced in the 21st Century Skills effort.
College and Work Ready Standards and Assessments
The bill appropriately places an importance and emphasis on efforts to prepare students for success in college and the work place, and “college and work ready standards and assessments” or similar verbiage is used in a number of places in the bill. We would ask that descriptions or definitions of these terms include language that would clarify that these standards and assessments are “aligned to the skills and knowledge necessary for success in college, the workforce and citizenship.” This issue appears in Section 1111A(d), in a discussion related to the development of standards and assessments, but NCSS feels that Section 1111A could be amended earlier in the draft legislation to address this issue, perhaps via a definition of “college and work ready standards and assessments” that would make this point.
While these are two concerns, please know that many of the proposals in the draft address other concerns and needs of our members. In particular, the proposal to allow the use of state assessments at different points in time for AYP purposes will provide educators a measure of relief. The circumstances under which schools can be in compliance with AYP, but not the state assessment, or vice versa, can be frustrating, and clarification of this issue is welcome. The newly proposed Part I, Core Curriculum Development, is very much in line with NCSS’s “Making Every Moment Count” initiative, through which the Council and its partners support efforts to improve upon multidisciplinary instruction at all levels. In fact, we strongly believe these efforts should be supported at all schools˘not just those that receive funds under Title I of ESEA. Finally, the adjustment to current law that assesses and labels schools that fall short of their goals is welcome. The separation of “High Priority” schools and “Priority” schools is certainly an incentive to those schools that just missed the mark, and NCSS strongly supports this change. Again, thank you and your staff for the time and effort invested in improving this crucial federal program and investment. We look forward to working with you as this process moves forward.
Discussion Draft of the Majority of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act August 29, 2007 Last night the House Education and Labor Committee released a discussion draft of the majority of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. In the coming days WPLLC staff will be reviewing and digesting the draft legislative text We anticipate sending memo's outlining specific areas of interest from the draft legislation later today. The Committee encourages comments to the draft by September 5, 2007. To view a summary and text of the draft visit: http://edlabor.house.gov/
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On behalf of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and its more than 25,000 members, we would like to congratulate you on your election to the 110th Congress and thank you for your service. We look forward to working with you and your colleagues as you address federal policy issues that affect social studies educators over the next two years.
NCSS defines social studies as “the integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence.” The mission of the Council is to provide leadership, service and support for all social studies educators. These educators provide students with knowledge and historical perspective, intellectual skills and civic values needed to fulfill the duties of citizenship in a participatory democracy.
Founded in 1921, NCSS has grown to be the largest association in the country devoted solely to social studies education. NCSS engages and supports educators in strengthening and advocating for the social studies. With members in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 69 foreign countries, NCSS serves as an umbrella organization for elementary, secondary, and college teachers of history, geography, economics, political science, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and law-related education. Organized into a network of more than 110 affiliated state, local, and regional councils and associated groups, the NCSS membership represents K-12 classroom teachers, college and university faculty members, curriculum designers and specialists, social studies supervisors, and leaders in the various disciplines that constitute the social studies.
As you are undoubtedly aware, the 110th Congress intends to address the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), currently known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB). It is a law that has had an enormous impact on public education throughout the nation and has brought vital focus to the need to define school wide academic success as success for every child. NCSS wholeheartedly endorses this goal but believes the law can be both strengthened and improved.
Last year, the Center on Education Policy (CEP) released its fourth annual report on the implementation of NCLB. “From the Capital to the Classroom: Year 4 of the No Child Left Behind Act.” Results of the survey on which the report was based indicated that implementation of No Child Left Behind has brought both positive and negative results to schools nationwide. NCSS is particularly troubled by one finding: One-third (33 percent) of school districts surveyed reported reducing time for social studies “somewhat or to a great extent” to make time for reading and math, while 29 percent said they had reduced time for science and 22 percent for art and music. This is clearly an unintended consequence of NCLB and one that deserves the attention of policy makers.
NCSS is concerned that social studies is getting short shrift in the classroom as teachers and administrators focus almost exclusively on achievement test results in math and reading. If American students are to succeed in the global market place of the 21st Century, it is the teaching of social studies, science and other core disciplines that will serve as the means to stimulate interest in academics and prepare students for their roles as citizens.
The National Council for the Social Studies looks forward to working with you and your staff on this important issue during reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as well as the consideration of other policy matters important to social studies educators.
If we can assist you or your staff as education issues are considered, please do not hesitate to contact Susan Griffin at 301.588.1800, ext. 103 or at sgriffin@ncss.org.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
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S.3958
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H.R.6206
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Title: A bill to increase the number of well-educated nurses, and for other purposes
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham (NY), (introduced 9/29/2006)
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Title: A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to repeal the school as lender program; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles (NY), (introduced 9/29/2006)
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Title: Annual Performance Report for the Gaining Early Awareness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) Program.
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Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
Type of Review: New.
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Dates: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before October 23, 2006.
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DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before November 28, 2006.
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