WASHINGTON — President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act into law Thursday, largely replacing the No Child Left Behind Act that was a hallmark of his predecessor's domestic agenda.

When most people think about the No Child Left Behind Act, they think of two things: former President George W. Bush, and standardized testing. But the politics, policy, and history of the law are ...

his statement seemed like a pointed criticism of the federal No Child Left Behind Act and of his own long-standing policies. For the last 14 years, the law has pressured public schools to raise ...

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Bush's signing of the equally bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, an effort to raise performance through an emphasis on standards, testing and accountability. But No Child Left Behind soon ...

This is especially true when it comes to education and the federal law known as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). But truth--always a rare commodity--is growing rarer still as the nation ...

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, signed into law by President Bush on Jan. 8, 2002, was a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the central federal law in pre ...

The military's attempts to acquire the private information of high school students for use in their aggressive recruitment campaigns A provision in the "No Child Left Behind" Act, signed by President ...

The original law on which No Child Left Behind is based—the half-century-old Elementary and Secondary Education Act—was supposed to be renewed nearly a decade ago. Politics just kept getting ...