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Article: Ten big effects of the No Child Left Behind act on public schools: the Center on Education Policy has been carefully monitoring the implementation of NCLB for four years. Now Mr. Jennings and Ms. Rentner consider the comprehensive information that has been gathered and present their conclusions about the law's impact thus far.
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- October 1, 2006
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TEST-DRIVEN accountability is now the norm in public schools, a result of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, which is the culmination of 15 years of standards-based reform. Many state and local officials believe that this reliance on tests is too narrow a measure of educational achievement, but NCLB has directed greater attention to low-achieving students and intensified efforts to improve persistently low-performing schools.
For the past four years, the Center on Education Policy (CEP), an independent nonprofit research and advocacy organization, has been conducting a comprehensive and continuous review of NCLB, producing the annual reports contained in the ...