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Every Spring, the state teachers of the year travel to Washington to meet the President. But this year, they planned an event of their own – 50 of the state teachers of the year held a press conference calling for 10 major changes to the Federal law known as No Child Left Behind.
Hear Maddie Fennell, the 2007 Nebraska Teacher of the Year, discuss how the law looks differently in Washington than it does in her Omaha classroom.




March 11, 2011 at 10:40 am
A 13-part examination of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) | Learning Matters: Reporting you trust on education stories that matter says:
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