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NEWS ABOUT: No Child Left Behind

No Child Left Behind stories: 16 news summaries

(Newser) - Arne Duncan isn’t quite the miracle worker Barack Obama made him out to be, according to a new study from a Chicago civic group. When Obama introduced his nominee for education secretary, he boasted that Duncan had boosted elementary school test results “From 38% of students meeting the... More »

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education • Barack Obama • Chicago • Department of Education • Chicago School • No Child Left Behind • Arne Duncan

Obama Razes 'No Child Schoolhouse'

Bush-era name ditched as administration seeks to overhaul education law

Jun 23, 09 4:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - A model of a little red schoolhouse used to promote the launch of the federal policy "No Child Left Behind" is no more, the Washington Post reports. In a highly symbolic move, the structure at the entrance of the Department of Education and policy logos of the Bush administration... More »

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Bush administration • education • Department of Education • No Child Left Behind • Obama administration • Arne Duncan

'No Child' Law Fails to
Narrow Racial Gap

Minority students lag behind whites despite overall improvements since 2004

Apr 29, 09 1:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - The achievement gap between white and minority students has not been changed by federal No Child Left Behind initiative, the New York Times reports. Scores from a federal test considered to be the most accurate yardstick of reading and writing proficiency show that elementary students have improved across the board... More »

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education • race • No Child Left Behind • Obama administration • racial gap • Arne Duncan

OPINION

Teach to the Test—But Make Better Tests 

Tie reading passages in with curriculum to even playing field

Mar 23, 09 10:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Critics worry that the current system of “fill-in-the-bubble” school testing promotes teaching to the test—but maybe that wouldn’t be such a bad thing if we had tests “worth teaching to,” writes Ed Hirsch Jr in the New York Times. The tests themselves are highly reliable... More »

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education • reading • teaching • No Child Left Behind • standardized testing

OPINION

 Obama Has Right 
 Idea on Education 

Breaks with party orthodoxy

Mar 13, 09 9:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - David Brooks crosses ideological lines to give President Obama a big shout-out on his education strategy today in the New York Times. "He has broken with liberal orthodoxy on school reform more than any other policy," Brooks raves. "He's naturally inclined to be data driven. There's reason... More »

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education • Barack Obama • No Child Left Behind • David Brooks

Education Law in Dire
Need of New Name

Ridicule of No Child Left Behind prompts search

Feb 23, 09 7:58 AM CST
(Newser) - No Child Left Behind has become “the most negative brand in America,” says a congressman, and new Education Secretary Arne Duncan says it’s time for a new name for the law. Educators and jokesters alike are trying their hand at rebranding, the New York Times reports. Proposals... More »

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Bush administration • education • parody • joke • No Child Left Behind • George W. Bush • rebranding • Obama administration

 Schoolkids Need 
 Less Work, 
 More Play 

Recess cutbacks creating unruly students, researchers discover

Jan 26, 09 5:13 AM CST
(Newser) - Recess isn't just for fun, according to a new study, which has found that cutting back on playtime is harming schoolchildren. The loss of a 15-minute daily recess tended to make 8- and 9-year-old students unruly and deprived them of an opportunity to exercise and socialize, reports Reuters. The study... More »

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education • recess • No Child Left Behind • academic research • medical study

Parents Rate Online Report Cards an 'A'

Students can't hide, 'forget to bring home' real-time progress

Nov 3, 08 9:50 AM CST
(Newser) - As more schools embrace digital learning tools and assignment calendars, up-to-the-minute GPAs are going online as well. Students whose schools use online report cards don't have the chance of hiding a low test score, because their parents need only log on to see Junior's latest grades. But it can breed... More »

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education • parents • No Child Left Behind • grades • high school students • online report cards

OPINION

 'Saving' Public Schools 
  Not a Money Thing 

Better education can't be legislated, or bought—parents have to make the effort

Aug 21, 08 4:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - As dissatisfaction with the nation’s No Child Left Behind policy grows, it seems educators, politicians, and businessmen all have their own take on how to “save” the US public school system—with little consensus. Gary Stager, in Good, examines the overwhelmingly complex difficulties facing the nation’s ailing... More »

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education • Bill Gates • Eli Broad • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation • No Child Left Behind • public schools

ANALYSIS

McCain, Aides Often
Part Ways on Policy

Politico documents the differences

Jul 31, 08 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Much has been made recently of John McCain’s difficulty in driving a message from his “eclectic and occasionally politically inconvenient hodgepodge of policy positions,” Politico says, but little has been said about how often the candidate’s top aides disagree with him. And while fewer public disagreements... More »

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climate change • John McCain • health insurance • tax cuts • No Child Left Behind • Carly Fiorina • Phil Gramm • Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Bush Loyalist Hits the Road to Save 'No Child'

Education secretary seeks to shore up reviled program

Jun 12, 08 6:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - As George W. Bush has become less and less popular, so too has No Child Left Behind, his education initiative that one congressman calls "the most negative brand in the country." As the administration realizes that its principal domestic achievement is likely to be undone by the next... More »

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Bush administration • education • No Child Left Behind • George W. Bush • Margaret Spellings

OPINION

It's Time to Bring Back Geography to Classrooms

Americans can't find their way around world maps

May 22, 08 9:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The impressive skills of 11-year-old Akshay Rajagopal—the nation's new geography bee champ—are all too rare. In fact, lots of Americans are geographically illiterate to an appalling degree, writes Evan Sparks in the American. At some point, the nation decided to leave the subject out of school curricula. Geography,... More »

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Iraq • education • children • geography • No Child Left Behind • stupidity

School Supers
Draw Big Bucks,
Bigger Perks

Turnaround experts find profitable niche in failing school districts

Mar 31, 08 11:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Teachers aren't living in luxury, but some school superintendents are, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Some are pulling in $325,000 a year, plus multi-million-dollar consulting budgets to restructure impoverished, underperforming public school systems. The Monitor calls them "central office rock stars," a product of the No Child... More »

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education • school • school districts • No Child Left Behind • public schools • superintendent • school board • teacher

OPINION

Obama Quits School Reform Talk on Trail

Senator may be caving to old guard where he'd been breath of fresh air

Mar 12, 08 6:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama has been backing off post-partisan rhetoric on education, looking more like a stick-in-the-mud Democratic regular on schools and less like the reformer who supported test-based accountability and performance pay for teachers. The Chicagoan had bucked teachers' unions and other stodgy liberals, supporting charter schools in Illinois and mentorship... More »

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education • Barack Obama • No Child Left Behind • charter school • vouchers • performance pay • teachers' unions • Teach for America

Bush's Wins Now Could Be Trouble Later

Victories over Dems may hurt his own initiatives, raise debt

Dec 15, 07 4:53 PM CST
(Newser) - Christmas came early for President Bush, who’s scored a slew of recent victories over the Democratic Congress. But the wins could threaten both the federal debt and some of his own pet projects, the Washington Post speculates. Bush’s steadfast opposition to tax-increasing spending measures from Democrats could... More »

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Republican • budget • congressional Democrats • No Child Left Behind • tax breaks • Alternative Minimum Tax • US Congress • domestic spending bill • Millennium Challenge Corp. • George W. Bush

4th Grade Math Scores Add Up

20% more students proficient in math than in 1990

Sep 26, 07 11:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - American elementary school students have improved their math skills considerably, with 20% more fourth graders scoring "proficient" on standardized math tests than in 1990, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Reading skills show more modest gains. The number of students scoring proficient in reading has increased only... More »

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elementary school • No Child Left Behind • mathematics • George W. Bush

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