From The Daily Nebraskan, 10/21/04:
http://nebraska.statepaper.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/10/21/4177a48c2bda6
Nebraska Educators Give "No Child Left Behind" A Failing Grade
By AARON BALS / Daily Nebraskan
In early 2002, Nebraska’s education policy makers got a collective
headache called No Child Left Behind.
The federal education reform was the most comprehensive, complicated
and controversial federal foray into public education in recent
history, and it did not receive a warm welcome by many in the
Cornhusker state.
"It is less about educating children than it is about politics," said
Marilyn Peterson, administrator of federal programs at the Nebraska
Department of Education.
The law’s supporters see it as an unprecedented federal effort to
incorporate accountability into public education.
To its critics, including many who determine Nebraska’s education
policy, it is an under-funded attempt to nationally standardize an
issue for which challenges vary by locality, and solutions lay in
local expertise and judgment.
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Another Bush "accomplishment"
Harry
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