NMSA's Recommendations for Reauthorization of NCLB

In January 2007, NMSA sent recommendations to U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and Congressional leaders involved in NCLB discussions. While the document focuses specifically on NCLB issues, it also reflects the goals and recommendations in NMSA's Success in the Middle: A Policymaker's Guide To Achieving Quality Middle Level Education. NMSA believes that the reauthorization of NCLB presents an excellent opportunity to strengthen national middle level policy and to help raise student learning and achievement in the middle grades.

View the letter to the Senate in support of the reauthorization of NCLB
View the letter to the House in support of the reauthorization of NCLB

NMSA's NCLB Recommendations

A Coalition of Education Organizations Makes Recommendations

Believing that the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act presents an excellent opportunity to establish national middle level policy, National Middle School Association invited other national organizations with common goals regarding the improvement of middle level education to join together to focus on these critical years.

Accepting NMSA's invitation to join with them to form a middle level coalition, ACT, Academy for Educational Development, Alliance for Excellent Education, The College Board, International Reading Association, National Association of Secondary School Principals, National Council of Teachers of English, and National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform met and collaboratively developed the following document, which urges Congress and the Administration to strengthen the reauthorization of NCLB and create a national middle level education policy to help young adolescents to achieve their fullest potential.

Coalition NCLB Recommendations