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Duncan Doles Out NCLB Waivers As Rewrite Lags

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First Posted: 04/26/11 02:08 PM ET Updated: 06/26/11 06:12 AM ET

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Education Week:

With Secretary Arne Duncan at the helm, the U.S. Department of Education is gradually--and sometimes quietly--chipping away at key parts of the No Child Left Behind Act as states and districts demand more relief from the elusive goal that all students be what the law terms "proficient" in reading and math by 2014.

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With Secretary Arne Duncan at the helm, the U.S. Department of Education is gradually--and sometimes quietly--chipping away at key parts of the No Child Left Behind Act as states and districts demand ...
With Secretary Arne Duncan at the helm, the U.S. Department of Education is gradually--and sometimes quietly--chipping away at key parts of the No Child Left Behind Act as states and districts demand ...
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ThomasPaine1776
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03:37 AM on 04/27/2011
NCLB is the right wing war on public education.

AYP is Ponzi scheme.
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OSCPJ
Want it? Work 4 it. No 1 has ever drown in sweat.
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05:55 PM on 04/26/2011
As a conservative, I always viewed, "No child left behind", as "All children left behind at the level of the lowest child".

Duncan continues to do what he does.  Make changes with waivers and decisions that an unelected person chooses to.

How come the NLRB article about preventing Boeing from building a new plant in South Carolina, isn't linked on HP.
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hairydodger
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03:11 PM on 04/26/2011
No child left behind.... Well maybe the hungry, poor ones. We have some inner city gangstas that are very smart but our school systems fail them in a big way. The result of our failure is that we get really smart criminals. This is serving our nation badly.
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Larry Strauss
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01:08 AM on 04/27/2011
Great point. And nothing about this federal law does anything about reaching those children. Declaring an end to mis-education and ignorance without figuring out how to end it is mis-guided and ignorant.
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