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The Public interest, 2004-10, Vol.157 (157), p.35-56
Ort / Verlag
Washington: The National Affairs, Inc
Erscheinungsjahr
2004
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Passed by Congress in 2001 and signed into law by President George W. Bush one short year after his inauguration, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is the most ambitious federal education statute in decades. NCLB's sprawling 1,100-plus pages radically overhaul the federal role in education, rewrite the rules, and reassign power - including more to Washington than ever before. Put simply, NCLB assumes that the entities that long permitted these schools to fail to educate millions of children will now display the fortitude, ingenuity, and capacity to turn them around. If NCLB is seen to expect the impossible, if it cannot effect the changes that it calls for, if it undermines things that are working reasonably well, and if it forfeits popular support, such failures could erode the commitment to results-based educational accountability and school choice that has begun to thrive in many states without federal involvement. No Child Left Behind asks state and local officials to undertake tasks that they view as unnatural, unrealistic, or at odds with their self-interest.