Deborah Meier has spent more than four decades working in public education. She has opinions about the U.S. educational system and advice for President Obama.
No Child Left Behind has generated a massive amount of testing data. But is it useful in the classroom? Jay McClain, a principal in Fairfax County, VA, talks.
5th grade teacher Betsy Walter sees her students making progress – but often, tests required by No Child Left Behind tell a different story.
Maddie Fennell, the 2007 Nebraska Teacher of the Year, discusses how No Child Left Behind looks differently in Washington than it does in her Omaha classroom.
Anthony Cody is a National Board Certified Teacher with 18 years of classroom experience under his belt. But he left the profession after NCLB was passed.
San Diego's Keiller Middle School re-invented itself as a charter school, and for the first time in years, students are meeting the requirements of NCLB.
Is No Child Left Behind truly holding states accountable for educating all children? Margaret Spellings responds to John Merrow's questions.
Conservative education guru Chester Finn discusses the loopholes in NCLB and tells us why it’s politically impossible to suggest a goal less than 100%.
In 2001, John Merrow spoke with the President's Domestic Policy Advisor Margaret Spellings and former President Clinton's Education Advisor Andy Rotherham.
One of the country's top education researchers discusses the federal law known as No Child Left Behind at a meeting of Phi Delta Kappa...
