Techniques for enforcing the English-only policy rely on peer oversight wherein students report to teachers if they hear others speaking Dholuo, the language of the Luo.
This feature of the OMTT allowed for anonymous oversight of student performance on midterm and final exams, in which students were coded (1-user or 2-nonuser) with a binary designation.
Representative George Miller, the California Democrat who is the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee and a critic of the department's oversight of student lending, also lashed out.
The revised No Child Left Behind Act that passed out of the Senate education committee last week goes too far in relaxing state accountability and federal oversight of student achievement.
Criticized for lax oversight of student loans, the federal Education Department is asking universities and lenders to abide voluntarily by its proposed rules banning certain marketing practices by loan companies, before the rules take effect next year.
Judith Bond, incoming president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology FASEBB) and a biochemist at Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, also disagrees with this recommendation, saying in an interview with Science Careers that "oversight of student training should be left to the universities, not the federal government".
The timing of the alleged violations of the service members law threatens to further shame an Education Department already facing harsh criticism for its lack of oversight of student loan companies it pays to interact with borrowers.
The U.S. Department of Education, under fire for its lackluster oversight of student loan contractors, said Friday it will terminate its relationship with five debt collectors after accusing them of misleading distressed borrowers at "unacceptably high rates".
Public disclosure of the probes comes as the CFPB ramps up its oversight of student loan servicers, the Education Department faces criticism for its lack of supervision, and Sallie Mae attempts to convince federal regulators to allow the publicly-traded company to split into two.
Interestingly, the overestimates were greater in the control settings than in the enhanced APPE, perhaps suggesting that preceptors' oversight of student experience is less detailed in controlled settings.
