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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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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

The problem is that many American elementary schools aren’t doing that. ” But this research hasn’t made its way into many elementary school classrooms. So in 2015, he assigned Harper to visit all of Bethlehem’s elementary schools and find out how children were being taught to read.

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Is Head Start a failure?

The Hechinger Report

Today, Head Start is nearing the end of a decade of big reforms, meant to improve quality and get closer to meeting the goals laid out for it in Johnson’s announcement of this new front in his War on Poverty. Former President Lyndon B. Johnson upon announcing the creation of Head Start. But the U.S. Former President George W. Photo: Paul J.

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