Resources

Videos

Testing Mrs. Grube is a moving portrait of a teacher under the testing gun. Click here to order a copy.

For a video of Richard Allington speaking brilliantly on NCLB at the 2006 National Council of Teachers of English meeting, send $25 to CalCARE, 4114 39th Avenue, Oakland, CA, 94619.

Sample fliers

FairTest

The Oakland Education Association called for repeal of NCLB in March of 2007.

Last year the Kings/Tulare UniServe (teachers' union) put together these fliers, along with a great website which CTA (the state organization) has since taken down.
Take Action, Organize, Eliminate NCLB Task Force

Relevant laws

This is Jaeger’s excellent summary/analysis of the No Child Left Behind law:
In English
In Spanish

If you're really serious, here's the whole No Child Left Behind Act

Court cases

Coachella sued the state to get equal protection for English Learners (ELs). Here’s the suit and a summary.

Miscellaneous

David Hursh, an active member of our ally, the Coalition for Common Sense in Education, in Rochester, NY, has just published High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning: The Real Crisis in Education.

Tom Chapin has an excellent new song you can play to your principal.

Richard Rothstein celebrates the anniversary of A Nation At Risk with a critique.

News Archive

Lincoln School, in tiny Lindsay, near Bakersfield, has turned back its $243,000 Title I money, on principle. Fresno Bee

Milwaukee may turn down some NCLB money, too.

Suit re unfunded mandate by NEA and states wins on appeal

Illinois school district threatens to not give English test to English learners.

Center on Education Policy finds "the amount of time spent teaching reading, math and other subjects has changed substantially... changes in curriculum are not only widespread but also deep."