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No Child Left Behind Turns 10 Facing Mixed Results And Uncertain Future

First Posted: 01/ 4/12 06:51 PM ET Updated: 01/ 4/12 06:53 PM ET

When President George W. Bush joined congressmen John Boehner, George Miller and Edward Kennedy to sign the No Child Left Behind Act in January 2002, he touted the moment as a bipartisan victory for America's children.

"Today begins a new era, a new time in public education in our country," Bush proclaimed in Princeton, N.J., as he signed the bill into law on Jan. 8, 2002. "As of this hour, America's schools will be on a new path of reform, and a new path of results."

But 10 years later, results matching Bush's rhetorichaven't yet arrived -- and the law itself is unlikely to change any time soon.

The latest rewrite of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, NCLB was the first federal