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Clearwater Learning Center Battles Illiteracy and Absenteeism
“Fixing a kid’s education is one of the most beautiful things ever,” Jen says. “It never gets old.”
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EDUCATION
Reading Between the Lines
Signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002 following bipartisan passage in both the House and the Senate, No Child Left Behind was intended to make schools and teachers more accountable for student performance. But the law has been criticized for overemphasizing standardized test scores while tying school performance to federal funding.
EDUCATION
Lotus Blossoms
The bitterest pain among humans, the Greek historian Herodotus said, is to have much knowledge but no power. The truism has long been felt keenly in India, where 68 percent of the nation’s 1.2 billion people still live in rural areas, the majority of them on less than $1 a day.
EDUCATION
Listen to the Teacher
The No Child Left Behind Act, signed into law in January 2002, put U.S. public schools on the road to what many educators characterize as a gross overreliance on testing “technology,”...
