The U.S. Department of Education has published three new evaluations of separate portions of the 7-year-old No Child Left Behind Act.

What remains unclear, as Arne Duncan prepares to take the helm of the Department of Education, is where he would take federal education policy over the next four years,

“Why are one-size-fits-all performance standards inappropriate to the point of silliness when applied to dogs, but accepted without question when applied to kids?” Marion Brady questions as he criticizes inflexible education guidelines.

The new U.S. Secretary of Education would get a discretionary pot of $15 billion to dole out for state and local incentives under the economic stimulus proposals.

An emphasis on academics and other structured activities is stripping young children of much-needed time for make-believe, experts warn.

Future leaders might look to the precedent established by Secretary Spellings to fashion a strategy that NCLB critics would embrace, thereby robbing her and President Bush of the education legacy they sought to leave behind, says Eugene W. Hickok.

NCLB is Bush’s top domestic legacy. The president pressed for the school accountability law from the beginning.

The Chicago schools chief supports the No Child Left Behind Act and could bridge differing approaches to education reform.

Almost 30,000 schools in the United States failed to make adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act in the 2007-08 school year.