How can governors best communicate the importance of NCLB, its requirements, and its potential impact on state policy?
No Child Left Behind not only requires states take certain actions around teaching quality–defining, reporting on the distribution and preparing a recruitment plan to ensure highly qualified teachers; requiring scientifically-based professional development; funding partnerships between higher education institutions and high-need districts, encouraging alternative routes, etc.–but provides additional resources to do so. Governors can use No Child Left Behind to engage policymakers, stakeholders and practitioners in a statewide conversation about teaching quality, accountability and the quality of education. Ideally, the conversation should focus more on finding consensus for state systemic reform than meeting the specific mandates of the federal act. While the mandates can provide a baseline for the discussion, states should use this as an opportunity to forge a direction that best meets the needs of their students and teachers. These conversations will need the prestige and visibilit
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