Source Note: “Education secretary announces changes to No Child Left Behind”

March 13, 2009 in Research Project

Title: “Education secretary announces changes to No Child Left Behind”

Summary: U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty at a press conference regarding No Child Left Behind.

Topic: Should the Obama Administration reform the No Child Left Behind Act?

Category: Journalistic; Image of Press Conference

Publication Information: Minnesota Public Radio, 3/18/08

Author: Tim Nelson, photographer.

Location: minnesota.publicradio.org

Accessed: March 12, 2009

Support:

• U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings: A major defender of No Child Left Behind, Spelling has 
• Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty: Pawlenty has been one of biggest state-level advocates for NCLB.
• Changes to No Child Left Behind: Spellings and Pawlenty appeared together to publicly introduce slight changes in NCLB’s accountability framework, specifically by allowing school administrator’s to target specific students for improvement.

Audience and Agenda: Minnesota Public Radio maintains 38 stations in the Midwestern U.S. and is owned and operated by American Public Media of St. Paul, MN. The Quantcast Audience Profile for minnesota.publicradio.org identifies total monthly visits of 162,000.

Usefulness: The photo accompanied an article of the same title, also by Tim Nelson, published on March 18, 2008 on the MPR website. The photo is useful as a visual representation of the late changes made by the backers of NCLB to its performance-measuring mechanism, and is symbolic of the conflict between policy makers and the public over the methodology of the law.

Works cited:

“MPR: Education secretary announces changes to No Child Left Behind,” http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/03/18/spellings/

“MPR: About Us,” http://minnesota.publicradio.org/about/

“minnesota.publicradio.org – Quantcast Audience Profile,” http://www.quantcast.com/minnesota.publicradio.org

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