What's Going on With No Child Left Behind?
Over at The Nation, I assess the Obama administration's new "waiver process:"
A more progressive rethinking of NCLB might have allowed students to transfer out of their home school districts to integrated, higher-performing suburban schools: We know from the experiences of Milwaukee, Seattle, and Hartford that when such programs are available, they are extremely popular among low-income families and lead to improved academic outcomes.
On curriculum, it would have been worthwhile to encourage states to scale-up programs that introduce teenagers--in an academecially rigorous way--to potential occupations, since we know one of the best ways