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IPFS News Link • Education: Government Schools

No Child Left Behind's 10th Anniversary....it FAILS

01-01-2012 • www.fairtest.org

Ten years have passed since President George W. Bush signed No Child Left Behind (NCLB), making it the educational law of the land. A review of a decade of evidence demonstrates that NCLB has failed badly both in terms of its own goals and more broadly. It has neither significantly increased academic performance nor signifi cantly reduced achievement gaps, even as measured by standardized exams. In fact, because of its misguided reliance on one-size-fi ts-all testing, labeling and sanctioning schools, it has undermined many education reform efforts. Many schools, particularly those serving low-income students, have become little more than test-preparation programs.

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Reported By Michele Power

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