Changes to No Child Left Behind expected
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When Tori Boyles, of Columbia, Mo., takes a test at school, an adult often reads the questions to her because the 9-year-old has learning disabilities that make reading difficult.
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The company that provides standardized tests to Virginia's schoolchildren will add staff and upgrade technology to help prevent technical glitches such as those that recently forced thousands of students to retake online exams, officials said yesterday.
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Will some of the new legislation affect you?
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THE BCS system has been tweaked and patched and overhauled and then tweaked some more. As was written in this same space this time last year, the year before that and the year before that
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The BBC's Mike Baker wonders what will become of the Tomlinson school diploma proposals.
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President Bush's plan to expand standardized testing in high schools is facing a fight from some of the same leaders in Congress who pushed through his first-term school agenda.
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By Tiffany Erickson Deseret Morning News  Friday the House approved a bill that would tweak the new private school voucher law known as the Parents for Choice in Education Act.
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President Bush has used the start of a new school year in the United States to praise what he says are the positive results of the No Child Left Behind law.
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An independent commission yesterday proposed dramatic changes that would shake upAmerican public education in an effort to make the nation more competitive globally. The recommendations include authorizing school districts to pay companies to run all their schools; enrolling many students in college after the 10th grade; and paying teachers about $100,000 annually....
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A $1 billion reading program that is   a key part of the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind   education law was mismanaged and rife with conflicts of   interest, according to an internal audit released on Friday.
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The scarlet letter in education these days is an "R." It stands for restructuring &#151; the purgatory that schools are pushed into if they fail to meet testing goals for six straight years under the No Child Left Behind law.
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Plans to boost the educational chances of children in care are to be outlined in a White Paper.
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The landmark law reshaped public education, but it's flawed. Here's how to make it better
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President Bush is promising to make secondary schools a priority in a second term, broadening an education agenda that critics say has left high schools behind.
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In the five years since a federal law mandated an expansion of reading and math tests, 44 percent of school districts nationwide have made deep cutbacks in social studies, science, art and music lessons in elementary grades and have even slashed lunchtime, a new survey has found.
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Rod Paige's tenure as Education secretary was defined by his defense of one law, No Child Left Behind Act, the biggest change in federal education policy in decades.
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OVERLAND PARK, Kansas  - For the fourth time in eight years, the Kansas Board of Education is preparing to take up the issue of evolution and what to teach -- or not teach -- public school students about the origins of life.