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Publication Date: May 2007
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Tom Horne
Research Area: Education
Keywords: Education; assessments; NCLB-page-lectures
Type: Speech
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
No Child Left Behind represents a prescriptive, complex, one-size-fits-all federal policy that undermines the principles of standards, assessments, and accountability by trying to implement them from Washington, D.C. Rather than using the blunt instrument of "proficiency" testing, states should be free to use innovative measures of academic progress over time.