NCLB—On the Web
American Federation of Teachers (AFT)—No Child Left Behind
http://65.110.81.56/topics/nclb/index.htm
Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development (ASCD)http://www.smartbrief.com/alchemy/servlet/encodeServlet?issueid=68D55750-9C3
This ASCD SmartBrief Special Report offers a collection of resources for helping educators understand and implement NCLB.
Classroom Struggles
http://www.classroomstruggles.org/home.htm
The latest audio interview featuring Richard Allington and reporter and co-author of NY Times cover story "Gains in Houston Schools: How Real Are They?" Diana Jean Schemo has now been posted on the Classroom Struggles website. Listen, participate in the on-line discussions, and share with anyone interested in the politics and profit behind NCLB mandates and federal education policies.
Education Commission of the States' NCLB Page
http://www.ecs.org/html/issue.asp?issueid=195
ECS reports on state compliance, research and reports and provides additional links. Also breaks down NCLB into smaller components, such as teaching quality, scientifically based research, and adequate yearly progress.
Education Week—No Child Left Behind
http://www.educationweek.org/context/topics/issuespage.cfm?id=59
Provides links to archived articles, organizations, and other Web sites related to the No Child Left Behind Act.
International Reading Association (IRA)—Focus on NCLB
http://www.reading.org/resources/issues/focus_technology.html
This site gathers a variety of IRA's Web-based resources related to NCLB and education policy including position statements, books, articles from IRA publications, meeting sessions, committees and special interest groups, awards and grants, and other resources.
Learning First Alliance
http://learningfirst.org/publications/nclbguide/
"A Practical Guide to Talking With Your Community About No Child Left Behind and Schools in Need of Improvement" is designed to help school leaders communicate with parents and the public about the law and its effects in each community.
National Parent Teacher Association (PTA)—Elementary and Secondary Education Act
http://www.pta.org/ia_pta_positions_1118176388640.html
NoChildLeft.Com
http://www.nochildleft.com/
This site is a publication of FNO Press in Bellingham, Washington which advocates a sound aproach to school improvement. It includes articles, Web sites and resources on NCLB legislation.
No Child Left Behind Toolkit
http://www.ed4allkids.org/NCLB/
NCLB builds on and strengthens parent involvement provisions from an earlier version of the law, and adds new requirements for schools and districts. The Pittsburgh Council on Public Education created this Toolkit to help parents make the most of these new requirements.
North Central Regional Education Laboratory (NCREL)—An Overview of The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)
http://www.ncrel.org/policy/curve/overview.htm
This Web site provides information on the NCLB for states and educators seeking to understand the implications of the legislation.
NCLBgrassroots.org
http://www.nclbgrassroots.org/
NCLBgrassroots.org, a new website tracking news articles from every state on the No Child Left Behind Act and monitoring how communities are faring under the law. This site gives voice to the mounting evidence that NCLB has a noble name, but that its merits as social policy begin and end there.
Rethinking Schools—Bush's No Child Left Behind Act
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/special_reports/bushplan/index.shtml
Rethinking Schools, the quarterly educational journal based in Milwaukee, WI, has published a collection of articles on the No Child Left Behind Act on its Web site. Included in this special collection are articles previously published in Rethinking Schools.
Susan Ohanian.org
http://www.susanohanian.org
Winner of the 2003 NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language, this site offers news, opinion, and cartoons on standards and high stakes testing. There is a section on what the host calls NCLB Atrocities. The site has a search function.
US Department of Education—No Child Left Behind
http://www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml
Related Information:
No Child Left Behind Act (Elementary)
No Child Left Behind Act (Middle)
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