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No Child Left Behind

No Child Left Behind is up for reauthorization this year. After five years of expanded federal involvement in local schools, Congress has the opportunity to reassess whether the federal role in education is effective or warranted.
Read: Reauthorization of No Child Left Behind: Federal Management or Citizen Ownership of K–12 Education?




 
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June 28, 2007
A Closer Look at Title I: Making Education for the Disadvantaged More Student-Centered
By Susan L. Aud, Ph.D.
(Special Report #15)
Congress should (1) reform Title I of No Child Left Behind to return to the original student-centered goal of compensatory education; (2) streamline the funding ...

 

June 27, 2007
Reauthorization of No Child Left Behind: Federal Management or Citizen Ownership of K–12 Education?
By Eugene Hickok, Ph.D., and Matthew Ladner, Ph.D
(Backgrounder #2047)
Testing requirements in No Child Left Behind are causing a "race to the bottom" that threatens to eliminate academic transparency about student performance, denying parents, ...

 

June 19, 2007
Reforming No Child Left Behind by Allowing States to Opt Out: An A-PLUS for Federalism
By Dan Lips
(Backgrounder #2044)
By restoring greater state control of education, the A-PLUS Act would allow states to end inefficient and ineffective federal programs, reallocate funds toward state-directed initiatives ...

 

March 23, 2007
The Administrative Burden of No Child Left Behind
By Dan Lips and Evan Feinberg
(WebMemo #1406)
Congress must address the massive administrative and bureaucratic costs that the federal government imposes on state and local education authorities.

 

 

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May 14, 2007
A State Perspective on the Past and Future of No Child Left Behind
By The Honorable Tom Horne
(Heritage Lecture #1023)
No Child Left Behind represents a prescriptive, complex, one-size-fits-all federal policy that undermines the principles of standards, assessments, and accountability by trying to implement them ...

 

April 25, 2007
Educational Freedom in the Wake of No Child Left Behind
By Bob Schaffer and Peter Hoekstra
(Heritage Lecture #1016)
No Child Left Behind was the largest federal intrusion into K–12 education since creation of the Department of Education, and federally driven testing requirements cannot ...

 

February 20, 2007
A Better Answer for Education: Reviving State and Local Policymaking Authority
By the Honorable John Cornyn and the Honorable Jim DeMint
(Heritage Lecture #994)
The A-PLUS Act of 2007 would restore federalism to public education by allowing states flexibility in spending their federal education dollars while still requiring an ...

 
 
 
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