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Several Senate amendments aim a weed-whacker at the thicket of standardized tests.
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Business lobbyists say Congress has enough time left this year to pass significant legislation. But those plans could get tripped up by debate over Iran and over the budget.
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The Senate may have voted to replace NCLB, but one of the old law's chief architects argues that much of it should stay just the way it is.
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As Congress debates the future of No Child Left Behind, one state falls short of federal testing requirements.
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Passed in 2001, the education law established more standardized testing and education data collection than at any time in U.S. history. Congress is looking to reauthorize it, but roadblocks remain.
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A lot of time, effort and money over the past decade have gone into producing a great statistic, but not without unintended consequences.
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Miami-Dade County abandons a plan to administer 300 different end-of-course exams. The new number: 10. Broward County will throw out 1,300.
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Tuesday, senators begin working out the details of a bipartisan update to the No Child Left Behind education law. The proposed revision would give states more control over school accountability.
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Steve Inskeep talks with NPR Ed's Anya Kamenetz about her book, The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed with Standardized Testing — But You Don't Have to Be.
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President Obama will lay out three main ideas in a State of the Union speech that may echo his first address to Congress in 2009.