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Article: NCLB and the competitiveness agenda: happy collaboration or a collision course? Some see the Administration's American Competitiveness Initiative as the perfect complement to NCLB's equity focus. Mr. Hess and Mr. Rotherham, however, are not so sanguine about the prospects for synergy.
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- Phi Delta Kappan
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- January 1, 2007
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS have spent the last five years under the spotlight of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). The statute's relentless push to close the racial achievement gap and pursue universal proficiency in reading and math has focused unprecedented attention on basic instruction.
However, this push has also raised concerns about a slighting of high-achieving students and about inattention to advanced instruction and the dictates of national "competitiveness." These concerns have taken on a more pressing cast in the past three years, a period backlit by Thomas Friedman's best seller, The World Is Flat, and by the growing recognition that modern communications, ...