standards & testing
issue guide: No Child Left Behind
The Skinny
see also background & facts, pro & con, links
What's up
No Child Left Behind (NCLB), today's version of the federal government's funding program for public schools, is up for renewal in 2007. Seen as President Bush’s signature education policy, NCLB, which aims to insure all students are 100% proficient in reading, writing and math by 2014, has had mixed results when it's come to testing time. The law has also earned itself a legion of critics who say it sets demands too high and funds too low.
