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Encore--The Ready to Teach Act.(Education)

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| April 19, 2004 | Gilmore, Jodie | COPYRIGHT 2004 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Not content with reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act via the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA), the Bush Administration is now pushing a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA). As part of this effort, the House passed H.R. 2211 in the summer of 2003, and the Senate will be considering its own recommendations for the HEA later this spring.

H.R. 2211 is referred to as the Ready to Teach Act. According to John Boehner, chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, the Ready to Teach Act "seeks to meet the call of the No Child Left Behind Act to place a highly qualified teacher in every classroom by making improvements that will help ensure teacher training programs are producing well-prepared teachers to meet the needs of America's students."

A different way of looking at the Ready to Teach Act is that first the federal government creates a "problem" through regulation, then proposes a "solution" that involves even more regulation. The "problem" created by NCLBA is a lack of "highly qualified" teachers; the Ready to Teach Act "solves" ...

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