How Nebraska leaves no child behind

 Most state education officials grumble that the pressure-packed annual tests and rigid adequate yearly progress targets engendered by the federal No Child Left Behind law are flawed means of measuring student proficiency, raising academic standards, holding schools accountable and fostering learning. But since the penalty for defying the law is loss of federal funds, most treat NCLB’s prescriptives like bitter medicine they can’t afford to spit out. All, that is, except the iconoclasts who run the public schools in Nebraska. Read more about the Nebraska model in this article from Time magazine. And then, read how Time would fix the law in this article.