Confessions of a "No Child Left Behind" Supporter
An interview with Sandy Kress
With the due date for the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind
(NCLB) right around the corner, Education Next thought it apt to probe
the lessons learned in the five years since the act’s passage. After
all, as the cliché goes, if we don’t learn from history we are bound to
repeat its mistakes. In that spirit, this past summer we conducted an
e-mail interview with Sandy Kress, a lawyer and former school board
member who, as a domestic policy advisor in the White House, served as
President Bush’s chief negotiator during the original NCLB debate. We
asked him about the genesis of key aspects of the federal law, whether
its crafters foresaw any of its major glitches, and what he thinks of
NCLB’s prospects going forward. see interview at
http://www.hoover.org/publications/ednext/6017586.html
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