Education Reform

Your class can read about the changes Obama considered making to Bush's No Child Left Behind Act. After reading the article, pupils answer 13 questions that ask, who, what, when, where, and why.

This site gives readers an overview of the No Child Left Behind Act. Addresses accountability, reducing red tape, school choice, improving reading, teacher quality, and progress.

New Talk provides an online forum where a panel of non partisan experts in their field discuss relevant domestic issues of today. This discussion focuses on the No Child Left Behind Act and what needs to be done about it. Can it be...

Progressive news source explores a little known portion of the No Child Left Behind Act which forces schools to give the military access to the names, addresses, phone numbers, and other personal information of their students, or face...

Video report from NewsHour on No Child Left Behind and its impact on gifted children. Very in-depth and shows both sides of the argument. Excellent report.

Report from 2004 on the federal government's decision to relax some of the rules in NCLB. Transcripts, audio and video of news report and discussion are available

Provides detailed facts and an overview of the No Child Left Behind Act passed January 8, 2002, requiring standardized math and reading tests.

The U.N. Millennium Development Goals call for universal primary education by 2015. But around the world, minorities are being left behind.

A 6/8/2009 televised report by economist Julian Betts covering the education agenda of the Obama Administration and offering optional opportunities for the "No Child Left Behind" laws. [58:06]

United States' President Barack Obama emphatically shares his concern and vision of the American education systems to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. March 10, 2009.