No Child Left Behind Rewrite
Recent Developments in Congress
Congress is expected to make major changes this year in No Child Left Behind, the controversial, nearly 10-year-old law that was the centerpiece of the Bush Administration’s education policy. The law technically expired in 2007, but has been automatically extended since then. Concerns about the law voiced by educational professionals include over-reliance on standardized testing and inflexible standards that label too many schools as failing. Testifying at a March 9 hearing before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said, “”We should get out of the business of labeling schools as failures and create a…
