History of IDEA
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What No Child Left Behind did and didn't do
- 09-17-2010
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Blog by Jay Mathews/Washington Post
No Child Left Behind, the most influential and infuriating federal education law in 40 years, is not quite dead, but getting close. The Obama administration and Congress say they will discard it soon for something different. Nobody's paying much attention to it any more. The term AYP has fallen out of favor among us education writers. So I was pleased to see that two of those superbright economists who seem to be doing all the education research these days, Thomas S. Dee of the University of Virginia and Brian Jacob of the University of Michigan, have provided a quick summary of what NCLB did, before we forget it ever existed. They have reviewed all the relevant papers and come up with some surprising conclusions: (more…)
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