The first major legislative act of the Bush Administration, long assailed by critics in education, was the “No Child Left Behind Act.” And now, President Obama is proposing some dramatic changes to the law that has magnified the importance of testing in the classroom.
Obama, according to the article, “will call for broad changes in how schools are judged to be succeeding or failing, as well as for the elimination of the law’s 2014 deadline for bringing every American child to academic proficiency.”
