At FiveThirtyEight, economics writer Ben Casselman has concocted one of t he saddest revisionary apologias for No Child Left Behind. Even ...

Well, that didn't take long. Some folks are already getting misty-eyed over the halcyon days of No Child Left Behind and grumbling abo...

US News ran another of its nifty Debate Club features on Monday, this time tackling the question, "Does No Child Left Behind's Test...

Andrea Mitchell, always a reliable amplifier of administration PR, gave Arne Duncan yet another opportunity to try to peddle his wares recen...

Last week the National Governor's Association (NGA) released their idea of what the new ESEA should look like. The document is only six...

At EdWeek, Cristina Duncan Evans had this to say about standardized testing: What's worse than annual standardized testing? Not havin...

Time magazine ran an interview with Senator Lamar Alexander , discussing the future of testing and the ESEA. It concludes with this quote: ...

Last week the Washington Post editorial board came out in favor of No Child Left Behind, headlining it as a moral imperative and inadverten...

This week the Big Noise About NCLB kicks off in DC with a hearing on Wednesday, Jan 21 entitled "Fixing No Child Left Behind: Testing a...

“Why [states and districts] chose to have tests on top of tests on top of tests” instead of improving instruction “is beyond me” Those wo...

Much will be written about Arne Duncan's January 12 speech about ESEA . I'm not going to attempt any big analysis (for reasons I'...

Last night, Politico ran a story announcing that Arne Duncan will on Monday issue a call "for repealing and replacing the nation’s lan...

Over at EdWeek, Alyson Klein examines one possible source of resistance to big changes in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (aka E...

Originally posted in View from the Cheap Seats We're reaching the end of 2014, close enough that there's nothing left for policym...

The return of a GOP majority to DC has renewed talk of the Great White Whale of education reform-- completing the long-overdue rewrite of E...

Feeling feisty after a successful election run, Republicans are reportedly gunning for various limbs of the reformster octopus, and reformst...

In our last installment, Forbes called a summit of Many Very Rich People to lay out what it would cost to fulfill the Must Have list for rem...