For IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 21, 2007
Contact: Larry McQuillan
(202) 403-5119
Washington, D.C. - Harold Doran, a senior research scientist at the American Institutes for Research, testified Wednesday, March 21, 2007, before the U.S. House of Representative's Education and Labor Committee, which held a hearing on options for improving the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).
Doran discussed whether the adequate yearly progress (AYP) provisions in NCLB would benefit from having additional ways to evaluate schools. The text of his prepared remarks is available on the AIR Web site.
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