Deep rifts over next NCLB
Consensus on what's wrong, not how to fix it
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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and President Obama are confident that members of Congress will revise and reauthorize the No Child Left Behind law this year, just as when they put aside fundamental differences to pass the law in 2001.
But Duncan and the president are deluding themselves, said two of three education insiders during a discussion of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), NCLB’s formal name, at a conference of education writers last week.
Rick Hess, an influential writer at the American Enterprise Institute, put the odds of