The Obama Administration is doubling down on its push to overhaul the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Last Wednesday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan testified before Congress and aggressively ...

Twenty years ago this fall, we kicked off the first new school year of the “No Child Left Behind” era. Back in early 2002, after close to a year of tendentious stop-and-start negotiations and just ...

President Obama granted 10 states relief from the strictest requirements of No Child Left Behind on Thursday, in a move he said combines “greater freedom with greater responsibility.” That freedom is ...

Rod Paige, an educator, coach and administrator who rolled out the nation’s landmark No Child Left Behind law as the first African American to serve as U.S. Education secretary, died Tuesday. Former ...

Re “‘No Child Left Behind’ Nostalgia Is Delusional,” by Ross Wiener (Opinion guest essay, June 24): In his essay on the legacy of the No Child Left Behind policy, Mr. Wiener creates a false choice ...

The No Child Left Behind Act is currently up for reauthorization, giving congressional champions of educational accountability a chance to address a major problem in its design. When it took effect in ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Alyson Klein, Editorial Projects in Education at Education Week Magazine, discussed the 2002 No Child Left Behind law and the reauthorization ...