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NCLB’s legacy: As the ESSA era begins, have policymakers, educators learned from the past?

The Hechinger Report

Many states either were not tracking them at all or were using widely disparate formulas that made state-by-state comparisons impossible. Passed in 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act was the centerpiece of President George W. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite. Bush’s education reform policy.