Jane Norwood is the vice-chair of the NC State Board of Education. Although her term on the board officially expired last month, she went to Washington to testify for the full House Education Committee on behalf of the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE).
The topic was No Child Left Behind, and Dr. Norwood, a professor of education at Appalachian State University, thought it was a good opportunity to tout the state’s high school reform efforts (think Learn and Earn), as well as the state’s “greater accountability with more accurate data” like the four-year graduation rate.
Of course, with all of this talk about high schools, Norwood and the State Board appears to have forgotten about the sorry state of North Carolina’s middle schools.
