{"id":485,"date":"2004-02-27T09:33:43","date_gmt":"2004-02-27T16:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2004-02-27T09:33:43","modified_gmt":"2004-02-27T16:33:43","slug":"no-child-left-behind-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"No child left behind update&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No child left behind update.&nbsp; I spent some time looking at a few resources and I am starting to get some feel for what NCLB means.&nbsp; I found a few sites that talk about requirements for teacher credentials, and a few that deal with requirements for curriculum development.&nbsp; One of the big issues is the testing that seems to be required.&nbsp; We are in Florida where we now have the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) which has had it&#8217;s share of controversy.&nbsp; When we started school there was no FCAT, but we did have something called CTBS.&nbsp; The kids and perhaps the teachers too, called it Childrens Torture Before Summer, but it is actually the TerraNova Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills.&nbsp; In the mid 90&#8217;s developement of the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.fldoe.org\/meetings\/June02\/History_of_the_FCAT.pdf\">FCAT and Sunshine State Standards began<\/A> and the first tests were given in 1998.&nbsp; So we have had the opportunity to watch the changes in the local schools as the FCAT has been implemented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No child left behind update.&nbsp; I spent some time looking at a few resources and I am starting to get some feel for what NCLB means.&nbsp; I found a few sites that talk about requirements for teacher credentials, and a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=485\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}