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- initialism No Child Left Behind, an American educational reform.
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The alternative to NCLB is to keep producing kids that are barely literate.
No child gets ahead David 2005
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My main take on NCLB is that it was a way to show in a powerful and public way how many schools are failing to do what they were thought to be doing.
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The main effect of NCLB is to limit student access to learning.
The Volokh Conspiracy » How President Obama is bringing real education reform to Colorado 2010
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Another negative offshoot of NCLB is the role of standardized tests has taken a punitive accountability.
Pam Lowe: It's Time for the Experts to Step up to the Mic Pam Lowe 2010
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Even if NCLB is not reauthorized, and even if, as is likely, no more money is approved for Race to the Top, Obama's key education initiative so far, there are key elements of the Obama education agenda that Republicans will surely find attractive.
Education policy: What will happen now Valerie Strauss 2010
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Too many of our reading programs in this country are put together in a rather random and haphazard way, even though NCLB is trying to remedy this situation.
Unlocking Literacy: Effective Decoding & Spelling Instruction « Books « Literacy News 2009
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NCLB is deeply, deeply flawed, having a lot to do with standardized test scores and relatively little to do with schooling children to be curious, informed, and responsible citizens.
Duncan: Smart Is Cooler Than Ever - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Another negative offshoot of NCLB is the role of standardized tests has taken a punitive accountability.
Pam Lowe: It's Time for the Experts to Step up to the Mic Pam Lowe 2010
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Look at W. and social security reform -- a big idea, and a continuation of much of his domestic public agenda from the first term NCLB, Medicare entitlements, etc.
"I would rather do the right thing and have 1 term than be mediocre and have 2." Ann Althouse 2009
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This is why the various steps of remediation in NCLB and other reform efforts have been such abysmal failures. —
Does This Analysis of Test Scores Make Any Sense? A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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