March 13 Conference frames agenda for Transforming No Child Left Behind 

 
Speakers including Dr. John Jackson, President and CEO of the Schott Foundation for Public Education; Congressman Chaka Fattah; and Rev. Dr. Michael Kinnamon collectively proclaim seven goals for the pending reauthorization of the federal education law:

• recognize that it is immoral to demand equal outcomes on standardized tests without equalizing the resources that create the opportunity to learn;
• address the generational educational debt of poverty and segregation;
• improve vulnerable public schools and turn away from blaming teachers;
• develop the unique gifts of each child, created in the image of God, rather than worshiping standardization;
• test children only in ways that improve instruction, measure real performance, and encourage exploration, imagination, and critical thinking;
• set a visionary and at the same time workable school improvement timeline;
• address economic and social issues outside the school day that impair learning.

Read full event report of Transforming No Child Left Behind conference.