Teach Effectively!

The Commission on No Child Left Behind (NCLB; this is the current version of the long-standing Elementary and Secondary Education Act of the US federal goverment), will release its report about how to improve the legislation tomorrow. In the lead-up to re-authorization of NCLB, this report is likely to have substantial impact. The event will be Web cast at www.nclbcommission.org. Here’s the press release.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2007
@ 9:30 AM EST
Commission to Release Final Recommendations for Reauthorization
Report Focuses on How to Improve NCLB

Washington, DC—Today former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and former Georgia Governor Roy Barnes, Co-Chairs of the Commission on No Child Left Behind, announced that the Commission will release its final recommendations for the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act. The release will take place on Tuesday, February 13th at 9:30 AM EST and will be held at the Caucus room (Room 325) at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.

The Commission on No Child Left Behind is an independent, bipartisan effort to improve the No Child Left Behind Act and ensure it is a more useful force in closing the achievement gap that separates disadvantaged children and their peers. The Commission has uncovered the successes of NCLB, as well as provisions which need to be changed or significantly modified. The Commission, after a year of hearings, analysis and research is set to report its recommendations to Congress and the Administration.

WHAT: Release of Final Recommendations
WHO: Commission on No Child Left Behind
WHEN: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 @ 9:30AM EST
WHERE: The Russell Senate Building, Room 325 (Corner of Delaware & Constitution Aves., NE, Washington, DC, 20510)

**THE EVENT WILL BE LIVE ON THE INTERNET AT: www.nclbcommission.org **

The Commission on No Child Left Behind is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Spencer Foundation. This document is published to communicate the results of the Commission’s work. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in the Commission’s documents are entirely those of the author(s) and should not be attributed in any manner to the donors.