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...... Excellence in education programs, like the Foundation for Excellence in Education, focus on teaching more so than learning. Emphasis is on rewarding teachers for their performance rather than on showing teachers how to create a more student-centered educational environment. The research funded by the Foundation for Excellence in Education does promote student scholarships. However, those scholarships are awarded in traditional ways: via traditional assessment methods following traditional coursework. A progressive educator would promote excellence in education via structural changes and radical shifts of focus


3. The Department of Education passed the No Child Left Behind Act during the Bush Administration. Since then the Act has impacted the ways schools receive funding and also, the ways teachers approach their work. No Child Left Behind demands more excellence in education by pressuring students to perform well on traditional standardized assessment tests......

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