No Child Left Behind: Giving the States a Break
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The Department of Education is showing new leniency on Bush's tough school standards. But the tests aren't going away
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THE BASICS: President Bush is beginning his push to require high school seniors to take the math and reading tests now required of younger students under the No Child Left Behind law
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The world has changed, but the American classroom, for the most part, hasn't.  Now educators are starting to look at what must be done to make sure our kids make the grade in the new global economy
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An expansion of education legislation is sparking opposition from both sides
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Education and business leaders urged an overhaul of the U.S. school system, including ending high school at the 10th grade for many students. Current teaching is failing to prepare young Americans for the global economy, members of a bipartisan panel said Thursday.
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Fifth-graders in California who adorned their mortarboards with tiny toy plastic soldiers this week to support troops in Iraq were forced to cut off their miniature weapons. A Utah boy was suspended for giving his cousin a cold pill prescribed to both students. In Rhode Island, a kindergartner was suspended for bringing a plastic knife to school so he could cut cookies.
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ATLANTA, Feb. 1 -- States should be prepared to keep children out of school for three months, businesses should be prepared to operate with skeleton workforces, children should be prepared to play mostly with their siblings, and parents should be prepared to lose income as they skip work and cobble...
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A new, independent report card flunks America's colleges in a key subject for many students and parents: affordability.    While noting progress in areas such as student preparation, the biennial study by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education drops the country to an "F" in affordability from the "D" it received in the nonprofit group's report two years ago...
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Carol Brody, an elementary school guidance counselor, has some advice for those wonder why educators are frustrated. "They should walk for one hour in a teacher's shoes," Brody said, "and then you wouldn't hear those criticisms from them again."
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The education policy of the Bush administration is founded on two pillars: standardized testing and charter schools.    However, as reported in this New York Times article (see also the audio archive at NPR or nonsubscription coverage at the Boston Globe) , the US Department of Education's own testing data show that nationwide, charter schools are, in aggregate, lagging their public counterparts.
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America's once-proud public school system -- the great equalizer of our democratic society -- is failing an entire generation of students. Millions of high-school students are donning their caps and gowns this month, but a new Education Week report reveals that more than 1.2 million students will fail to graduate high school this year. Half of our black and Hispanic male students are dropping out of public high schools.
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Unceasing criticism of the No Child Left Behind Act by the Democratic presidential contenders promises to make a second effort to renew it even harder.
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Beaufort County School District officials think all county schools that receive federal money based on the number of low-income students enrolled will meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act this year.
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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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Quantitative measures, the controversial linchpin of the Bush administration&#39;s approach to improving education, appear to have exposed performance problems with a favored alternative to public schools: the charter school.
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States want children to be a year older when they enter school. This could lead to better test scores â and more inequality.
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BISMARCK, ND - North Dakota schools made progress in the latest round of testing required by the federal No Child Left Behind law, state officials say.