NCLB Waivers and the Road Ahead

04/02/12 • 8 min

AASA Radio- The American Association of School Administrators

The mandates of No Child Left Behind are still with us. A waivers process has been instituted but it too is problematic. In this segment we get an update on the road ahead for NCLB and what it all means to your school district.
Congressman John Kline, elected to represent the suburbs and rural counties south of Minnesota’s Twin Cities (2nd district) in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002, and was re-elected to a fifth term in 2010. He is Chairman of the education and the workforce committe.

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Our guest is considered a leading innovator of strategies to engage underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering and math. His program has become the leading producer of African Americans who complete Ph.D.s in primarily white universities. In this segment he shares the strategies he's used to achieve such extraordinary success.
Freeman A. Hrabowski, III is President of UMBC (The University of Maryland, Baltimore County). His research and publications focus on science and math education, with special emphasis on minority participation and performance. He chaired the National Academies’ committee that recently produced the report, “Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America’s Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads.”

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