No Child Left Behind waivers: five ways education will change
By Becky Glander and Mike Schoemer Superintendent Dennis Peterson said No Child Left Behind categorizes children in ways that schools don't want to categorize children. President Barack Obama announced Thursday that Minnesota would be one of 10 states
By KEVIN BEGOS 02/ 9/12 06:20 PM ET AP PITTSBURGH — Some of the nation's largest states are questioning whether the Obama administration's offer to let them escape certain mandates of the No Child Left Behind law is a helping hand to improve education
By Becky Glander and Mike Schoemer Superintendent Dennis Peterson said No Child Left Behind categorizes children in ways that schools don't want to categorize children. President Barack Obama announced Thursday that Minnesota would be one of 10 states
WASHINGTON — It could be the beginning of the end for No Child Left Behind. The goal was lofty: Get all children up to par in math and reading by 2014.
President Barack Obama on Thursday will free 10 states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, giving leeway to states that promise to improve how they prepare and evaluate students.
