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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. In 2005, the nation’s governors signed a bipartisan compact agreeing to use the same formula to calculate how many of their students earned diplomas. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J.