ANALYSIS: NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND WAS SIGNED 20 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH. WHY IT’S MAKING EDUCATION’S COVID RECOVERY SO MUCH HARDER

This month marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of No Child Left Behind, President George W. Bush’s landmark education legislation championed by bipartisan leaders ranging from Ted Kennedy to John Boehner. It was coherent, thoughtful and premised on a core theory as to why schools struggled: the soft bigotry of low expectations for students and insufficient attention to holding schools responsible for children’s learning. Read more here