Five ‘No Child’ Thoughts on Its 10th Anniversary

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Although it’s unpopular, No Child Left Behind wasn’t a complete failure, education journalists are arguing.

The recent softening of rhetoric about NCLB is probably partially because it’s good manners to keep your most critical thoughts to yourself on special anniversaries.

But there are some good points in these five 10th-anniversary thoughts from Education Week. Students’ scores on the national assessment did improve, for example. Check out the full article for more.

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