NCLB Lessons
It Is Time for Washington to Get Out of the Way
A decade ago, Republicans and Democrats in Congress and a Republican president enacted a plan to improve our nation's schools. Their noble goal gave us No Child Left Behind.
Unfortunately, this plan inserted too many Washington rules and regulations into matters that should have been left to communities, parents, and classroom teachers. The goal was laudable enough: All 50 million students in nearly 100,000 public schools would be proficient in reading and math by the end of...
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