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Senate NCLB Discussion Draft Revealed
It includes allocations ($1 billion for 2008) for the following, as cited from ATTAIN itself:
- To improve student academic achievement on State academic standards through the use of professional development, research-based and innovative systemic school reforms, and other technology uses and applications.
- To improve teacher professional development to ensure every teacher and administrator is technologically literate, including possessing the knowledge and skills to use technology across the curriculum, to use technology and curriculum redesign as key components of changing teaching and learning and improving student achievement, to use technology for data analysis to enable individualized instruction, and to use technology to improve student technology literacy.
- To ensure that every student is technologically literate by graduation, regardless of the student’s race, ethnicity, gender, family income, geographic location, or disability.
- To improve student engagement, opportunity, attendance, graduation rates, and technology access through enhanced or redesigned curriculum or instruction.
To more effectively use data to inform instruction, address individualized student needs, and support school decision making. - To improve the efficiency and productivity of the classroom and school enterprise toward the ultimate purposes of improving student achievement.
ATTAIN and ESEA/NCLB Reauthorization
The language of ATTAIN appears in the Kennedy-Enzi Senate reauthorization draft in modified, but substantially similar, form. The House version had removed some provisions of ATTAIN. At this point, the Senate's draft is now being reviewed by the HELP Committee and will likely be modified by that committee.
The House is expected to introduce an NCLB/ESEA reauthorization bill by the end of the month. The Senate, meanwhile, will receive feedback on its draft and revise the language prior to introducing any formal legislation.
The timeframe for final reauthorization is, of course, unknown. But in a letter to its members today, SETDA wrote, "Ideally, we will see both the House and the Senate move quickly and get to the point where the two key committees will conference to come up with the final version. We know that several steps must still occur, but we are certainly in a good position for making educational technology an important part of the overall NCLB draft."
More information can be found on SETDA's site. A link to the site and to the draft itself can be found below.
Read More:
- Senate Title II Reauthorization Draft (Not Final) as of Oct. 16 (Part D begins on page 34.)
- SETDA Federal Policy Information Page
About the author: David Nagel is the executive editor for 1105 Media's online education technology publications, including THE Journal and Campus Technology. He can be reached at dnagel@1105media.com.
Proposals for articles and tips for news stories, as well as questions and comments about this publication, should be submitted to David Nagel, executive editor, at dnagel@1105media.com.
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