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

The Hechinger Report

President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., Many states either were not tracking them at all or were using widely disparate formulas that made state-by-state comparisons impossible. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.

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Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them

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students in kindergarten through 12th grade that is Hispanic increased from 19 to 25 percent between 2003 and 2013, while the black non-Hispanic population dropped from 17 to 16 percent and the white non-Hispanic population fell from 59 to 50 percent. By way of comparison, white non-Hispanics make up just 31.8 The share of U.S.

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For safer schools, we need more hugs, not more guns

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If the administration takes more of the NRA’s suggestions, I guess this would include replacing outside shrubbery with “thorn-bearing and sharp-leaved plant species,” which 2013 report. By comparison, whiter metros such as Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Minneapolis have some of the lowest concentrations of security guards.