The Atlantic – Alia Wong
“After months of anticipation—and nearly a decade of neglect—No Child Left Behind’s demise is closer than ever to becoming a reality. The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a much-anticipated bill that would remake the 50-year-old law on which No Child Left Behind is based, ending a chapter in which the federal government was the key decision-maker at local schools…Now, the Senate and the House, which passed its No Child Left Behind rewrite proposal last week, will go to conference and come up with yet another compromise. And that’s when the real drama is sure to unfold.”(more)