In a post about ESSA provisions to support educators, Winona Hao of NASBE noted that early childhood educators are explicitly included in the definition of professional development under Title II for the first
time in the federal education law.
Mandating additional testing,
in federal education law, of every pubic school student in every school every year is unnecessary for the federal government to serve its purposes or the purposes as originally laid down in ESEA.
When leaders put Standards Based Reforms (SBR)
in federal education law, we were trapped in the education metrics of outcome - based reforms.