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Classroom-Based Assessment Should Replace 'No Child', Experts Say - High School Notes (usnews.com)

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Classroom-Based Assessment Should Replace 'No Child', Experts Say

February 13, 2012 RSS Feed Print

President Barack Obama announced last week that 10 states will be exempt from the requirements of the highly-criticized No Child Left Behind legislation. In exchange, those states will have to agree to a series of reforms. But some experts say the law should be scrapped completely for models that don't rely on standardized tests.

"It behooves us to take a careful look at the policies at the heart of NCLB, because they have not worked, [and] if they are not working, we need to change them," said Monty Neill,