Education | No Option Left Behind

摘要

The battle promises to be one of the most contentious facing the new Administration: reform of the controversial No Child Left Behind law. The 2002 legislation at the center of George W. Bush's education policy requires states to test math and reading skills annually and penalizes schools whose students fail to make the grade. From teachers' unions to companies, nearly all sides regard No Child Left Behind as an ambitious but flawed effort to improve the U.S. education system. Lawmakers were due to reauthorize the act in 2007, but could not agree on changes. Now it will be up to the White House and the new Congress to decide how to rewrite No Child Left Behind.