No Child Left Behind
- The pattern isn’t perfect. But over the past twenty years, the two lines appear to be moving generally in the same direction.
- Few of NCLB’s provisions received as much scorn as its singular focus on grade-level proficiency as the sole measure of school performance.
- For all their differences, George W. Bush and Barack Obama shared a surprisingly common approach to school reform: a regulatory approach.
- The larger legacy of the Every Child Achieves Act may well be how it cleans up supplement not supplant, a little discussed and often misunderstood fiscal rule
- When designing accountability systems, we need to find the sweet spot between defeatism and utopianism. In my view, that’s exactly what the states are trying to do. They deserve our praise, not our derision.