The Washington Post's Maria Glod reports on Education Secretary Margaret Spellings appearance at the Aspen Institute yesterday, where she continued fighting the largely forgotten fight for No Child Left Behind. Spellings said the core principle of NCLB is beyond reproach: testing to ensure that kids ...

The Washington Post's Maria Glod reports today on how neither major presidential candidate ever mentions No Child Left Behind, George W. Bush's federal, test-based, education policy that enjoyed wide bipartisan support when it became law in 2002. Now, like much of the Bush agenda, NCLB is a discredited policy, ...

The New York Times' Sam Dillon mostly plays it straight today laying out the "downright terse" education plan of John McCain. McCain wants to make it easier for private tutoring companies to infiltrate public schools. He wants some sort of federal performance-pay ...

Who is the chief defender of President Bush's "No Child Left Behind" test-based education policy? Let's spell it out: S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G-S. Margaret Spellings, the Secretary of Education and a cross-country evangelist for NCLB, took her act to the Washington Post's editorial page ...

Democrats, Republicans, state legislatures and teachers have assailed the Bush administration's "No Child Left Behind" test-based education policy. But a report by the non-profit Center on Education Policy indicates that amazingly enough the program might actually be working.

The Washington Post's Maria Glod writes that the report shows that reading ...

So says a new report by the Fordham Institute, that during the period of No Child Left Behind, 2002-now, reading and math scores for the lowest achieving students have gone up, but scores for high achievers haven't. The think tank, which is fairly conservative and opposed to NCLB, makes no ...

The New York Times’ Sheryl Gay Stolberg has a terrific profile of Margaret Spellings, the Dept of Education secretary for President Bush’s second term. Spellings has been going across the country preaching the merits of NCLB, a testing-based, national educational program that long ago lost bipartisan support and became ...

Not according to a Dept. of Education study released yesterday on President’s Bush “Reading First” program. The controversial provision, which is part of No Child Left Behind, is meant to teach reading to low-income children. But it’s not, according to a report requested by Congress, where researchers followed children between ...

The Department of Education, Treasury Department and Office of Management and Budget are telling Congress to pass a bill enabling the administration to buy billions in student loans. The idea behind the proposal is that in the midst of the economic crisis, lenders need the capital from selling loans.

As Congress plodded along in 2007, it became clear that No Child Left Behind, the Bush’s administration education program now up for its first re-authorization, would be neither re-authorized nor eliminated.  Now Congress is not even trying, as lawmakers and advocates from all sides wait to see who ...