Discuss: P-20 Lip Service

"NCLB might as well be the elementary education act—the secondary provisions are not there. We talk about focusing on proficiency, but proficiency for what? It should be so that students can graduate from high school and move into college without remediation. Unfortunately, I see more P-20 lip-service than actual people from higher education sitting down in a room with K-12 educators, talking about what students need to know, to go from early learning to college graduation."

--Celia Sims, Legislative Assistant to Senator Richard Burr (R-NC)at the Alliance for Excellent Education's Meaningful Measurement: The Role of Assessments in Improving High School Education in the Twenty-First Century on April 14, 2009