The Choice Channel

“The chairman of the House education committee, an original architect of the federal No Child Left Behind law, said Monday that he wanted to change the law so that annual reading and math tests would not be the sole measure of school performance, but that other indicators like high school graduation rates and test scores in other subjects would also be taken into account. ‘Our legislation will continue to place strong emphasis on reading and math skills,’ the chairman, Representative George Miller, Democrat of California, said at the National Press Club. ‘But it will allow states to use more than their reading and math test results to determine how well schools and students are doing.’ In the speech, Mr. Miller described an array of criticisms that have emerged over the past year in hearings on renewing the education law.” (07/30/07)