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Article: No Child Left Behind: Peter Lang Primer.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Education Next
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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No Child Left Behind: Peter Lang Primer. Frederick M. Hess and Michael J. Petrilli (Peter Lang Publishing).
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Education Next executive editor Frederick Hess and Michael J. Petrilli, formerly a Bush administration official in the U.S. Department of Education, have written a long-overdue citizens guide to No Child Left Behind. The book is admirably concise, weighing in at fewer than 140 pages, or just one-fifth the length of its sprawling subject, the historic federal education law signed by President Bush in January of 2002. In clear language, the authors describe the ...