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Majority would like ‘no child’ law left behind

NCLB Icon  Nearly two-thirds of American adults want Congress to re-write or outright abolish the landmark No Child Left Behind Act that mandates nationwide testing of elementary students to determine if public schools are performing adequately. Opposition is especially high among people most familiar with the law, according to a survey of 1,010 adults conducted by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University. Read more about the survey in this article from the Scripps Howard New Service website.

Posted by Steve Groft on 31 May 2007 in Headlines , Issues in the News , Policy

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