A research center at Stanford University has issued a “midterm assessment” of the No Child Left Behind Act that offers suggestions to “save the law” while maintaining its core principles.
“[T]he current law does need change—not only to strengthen it but to avoid potentially calamitous problems only now appearing on the horizon,” says Within Our Reach: How America Can Educate Every Child. The book was issued in April by the Hoover Institution’s Koret Task Force on K-12 Education. The book outlines a range of legislative fixes, such as providing incentives for states to set high proficiency standards, and shifting primary authority for the law’s choice provisions from school districts to states.
