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No Child Left Behind Waivers Surrender Education Control to Washington

Lindsey Burke — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:27:32 +0000

The Obama Administration will announce later today that it is awarding No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waivers to 10 states: Colorado, Georgia, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. New Mexico is the only state that applied for a waiver and will not receive one, although the state is amending its application in order to get a second shot. The Administration argues that the NCLB waivers are necessary because Congress has failed to rewrite the flawed law, and states can’t wait any longer for relief from NCLB’s … More

Waiving Goodbye to the Constitution

Neal McCluskey — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:47:58 +0000

By Neal McCluskey

Today the Obama administration will announce, according to early press reports, that ten states (of eleven that applied) will be receiving waivers from key provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act. That’s right, the 2002 education law passed by Congress and signed by President Bush that absurdly insisted that all children will be proficient in mathematics and reading [...]

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Promises Unfulfilled? What Next, Federal Education Failure?

Neal McCluskey — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:31:47 +0000

By Neal McCluskey

On Sunday we marked the tenth birthday of the No Child Left Behind Act by reviewing its decade of futility and explaining why federal education adventuring is basically doomed to failure. (Enjoy some of our extensive coverage here, here, and here.) This week we got yet more evidence that federal policy is always big on promises, itty-bitty [...]

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A Decade of No Child Left Behind

Caleb O. Brown — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:31:49 +0000

By Caleb O. Brown

Ten years later, it’s clear that the No Child Left Behind law is a failure. Instead of driving better academic performance of K-12 students, NCLB has cost many billions of dollars with no discernible positive impact on student achievement. Worse, the law has laid some of the groundwork necessary for the adoption of national standards, [...]

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Morning Bell: Top 10 Education Stories of 2011

Lindsey Burke — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:16:19 +0000

There was no lack of education news in 2011. From an explosion in school choice options to the Obama Administration’s executive overreach, the top stories included the high and low lights when it came to issues affecting America’s schools. 10. Obama Administration orchestrates for-profit university witch hunt. On June 2, the Department of Education issued restrictive new regulations targeting “for-profit” higher education institutions. The new “gainful employment” regulation restricts access to student loans for students attending for-profit institutions (like Capella University or the University of Phoenix, for instance) if the school’s … More

Reality, Meet Education Policy. Education Policy, Please, Meet Reality!

Neal McCluskey — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:33:33 +0000

By Neal McCluskey

Nobody wants to be the guy — especially the Congress-guy — who says that we need to cut education spending. Nobody wants to be the target of attacks from both the well-intentioned and politically opportunistic that they hate children, only care about “the rich,” or any of the other deviousness that long ago snuck up behind reasoned debate, threw [...]

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Four More Things Washington Shouldn’t Do

Neal McCluskey — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:12:46 +0000

By Neal McCluskey

Today AEI’s Rick Hess and Stanford’s Linda Darling-Hammond—two folks who don’t always see eye to eye—have a New York Times op-ed that decries federal micromanagement in education, then lays out four things they think Washington should do. If only they’d stopped at lamenting micromanagement. Let’s take their four should-do’s in order: First is encouraging transparency for school performance [...]

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Little Evidence for Either

Neal McCluskey — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:16:35 +0000

By Neal McCluskey

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) or Common Core? NCLB and Common Core? If you look at the evidence, the answer to both questions is “no.” There’s precious little evidence that NCLB has worked, and just as little that national standards will do any better. Despite all the fine sounding talk about the federal government demanding “accountability” [...]

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