On 10th Anniversary, a Look Back at 'No Child' Legacy
January 4, 2012 RSS Feed PrintGeorge W. Bush's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation, which requires students at all U.S. public schools to meet certain math and reading benchmarks, went into effect nearly 10 years ago, on Jan. 8, 2002. Since then, NCLB has been a popular target for politicians, educators, and policy experts as it has become outdated. The legislation was supposed to be rewritten in 2007, but has merely been renewed by Congress for the past several years.
President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan haverepeatedly attacked the law, going so far as to grant waivers