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Testimony before the House Education and Labor Committee on the Re-Authorization of No Child Left Behind

Briefs
Author(s): 
Linda Darling-Hammond
Release Date: 
September 10, 2007
Areas of Focus: 
Meaningful Learning
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A transcript of Linda Darling-Hammond's 2007 testimony before the House Education and Labor Committee on the draft bill to re-authorize No Child Left Behind. Darling-Hammond's testimony focuses on three key elements of the law:

1.The provisions to encourage multiple measures of assessment and multiple indicators of school progress;

2.The provisions to improve the quality and distribution of the teaching force; and

3.The means for measuring school progress from year to year.