The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has fundamentally reshaped debates about American schooling by mandating that students in each district school make “adequate yearly progress.” Schools and districts that fail to improve are subjected to a five-year “cascade” of remedies and sanctions. These detailed prescriptions are intended to force low-performing schools and districts to improve and provide new options for their students.
On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of NCLB, AEI director of education policy Frederick M. Hess and Thomas B. Fordham Foundation president Chester E. Finn Jr. present the very first comprehensive five-year assessment of the implementation of all NCLB remedy provisions. Until now, NCLB as a whole has attracted extensive analysis and even more opinion, but complete and rigorous examinations of its remedy provisions have been sparse—especially when compared to the attention lavished upon the law’s testing and reporting sections. This assessment was conducted by a wide-ranging group of renowned education scholars and analysts.
Please join us on November 30 as AEI hosts a conference during which original research about NCLB remedies will be presented and discussed.
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