Are there links between the NCLB legislation and the National Writing Project (NWP)?
What is most important to know first is that NWP is specifically named and authorized in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act—otherwise known as No Child Left Behind— in NCLB, Subpart 2. The appropriation itself, or the funding for NWP, is chaptered in Title II. Also important to note is that the NWP professional development model is named and described on the U.S. Department of Education website. “AUTHORIZATION- The Secretary is authorized to award a grant to the National Writing Project, a nonprofit educational organization that has as its primary purpose the improvement of the quality of student writing and learning (hereafter in this section referred to as the ‘grantee’) to improve the teaching of writing and the use of writing as a part of the learning process in our Nation’s classrooms.” (Sec. 2332. National Writing Project.) For more information about the authorization of NWP, link to http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg30.html#sec2332. For a description of the NWP
