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Obama presses Congress for overhaul of No Child Left Behind law
- 05-23-2011
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By Roger Runningen/Bloomberg
President Barack Obama nudged Congress to overhaul the No Child Left Behind law by the end of the year and give states and local schools more flexibility in a student’s education. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama used his visit May 16 to Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis to illustrate the impact of demanding tougher education standards and overhauling schools. The Memphis school is located in an area besieged by crime, poverty and indifference to education, he said. “And just a few years ago, only about half of the students at the school graduated,” he said. “Just a handful went off to college each year.” The turnaround came when a “dynamic principal and devoted teachers” began “special academies for ninth graders -- because they found that that’s when a lot of kids were lost,” Obama said. (more...)
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