One in five students are struggling to read, and the nation’s public education system is doing almost nothing about it. The replacement to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) program is failing students.

President Obama signed off on a bill to replace the unpopular federal education law on Thursday. The new plan is known as the "Every Student Succeeds Act." The headlines wrote themselves yesterday: ...

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The House is set today to vote on a rewrite of the controversial No Child Left Behind education bill that has, for nearly a generation, increased the federal government’s role in elementary and ...

After years of pent-up frustration among state officials over what they’ve considered to be a heavy and prescriptive federal role in education policy, some states are bolting to overhaul their ...

The argument against No Child Left Behind was that the federal government had too much control over education, holding funding hostage if states didn't meet certain benchmarks tied to annual ...

This week, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee held a hearing to evaluate state’s education proposals under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The ESSA Act, passed ...

Even now, 20 years after the passage of No Child Left Behind, educators regularly voice their frustration with the state tests and accountability systems birthed under NCLB. Teachers and school ...

Even now, 20 years after the passage of No Child Left Behind, educators regularly voice their frustration with the state tests and accountability systems birthed under NCLB. Teachers and school ...

In the early 2000s, the U.S. adopted a model of education that promised to jumpstart the performance of failing students and hold teachers and administrators accountable. While well-intended, the ...