NCLB was scheduled for Congressional reauthorization in 2007—but has been delayed. Use these resources to learn more about what issues need to be addressed and what changes should be made, or to form your own opinion about whether or not the law should be scrapped in its entirety:
Minnesota
January 2008 - Implementation of No Child Left Behind Act Report to the Legislature - Update on nine NCLB waivers specifically requested by the Minnesota State Legislature (2006), Minnesota Department of Education.
July 18, 2007 - U.S. Senators Coleman, Lieberman and Landrieu Unveil Plan to Improve NCLB, Office of U.S. Senator Norm Coleman.
March 26, 2007 - Minnesota Education Leaders Recommend Changes to No Child Left Behind, Minnesota Department of Education.
February 27, 2007 - McCollum Reintroduces Student Achievement and Successful Schools Act, Office of Congresswoman Betty McCollum.
January 2007 - Implementation of No Child Left Behind Act: Report to the Legislature - Includes MDE responses to 2006 legislative language around the implementation of No Child Left Behind and recommendations related to the 2008 reauthorization, Minnesota Department of Education.
Learn more about NCLB in Minnesota.
National
March 2010 - A Blueprint for Reform: The Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act - A a framework to guide our deliberations and
shared work – with parents, students, educators, business and community leaders, elected officials, and other partners – to strengthen America’s public education system, U.S. Department of Education.
Key priorities:
(1) College- and Career-Ready Students
(2) Great Teachers and Leaders in Every School
(3) Equity and Opportunity for All Students
(4) Raise the Bar and Reward Excellence
(5) Promote Innovation and Continuous Improvement
January 2010 - College- and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for School Success - NCLB accountability system often labels schools as failing while ignoring actual evidence of college success. Schools labeled as failing are more likely to be subject to reforms and overhauls, even as their students go off to college and succeed. As federal lawmakers consider reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, they have the opportunity to use the dividends of that investment to solve one of the most vexing problems in K–12 policy: how to hold high schools accountable for preparing students to succeed in college and careers, Education Sector.
July 2009 - Reinventing the Federal Role in Education: Supporting the Goal of College and Career Readiness for All Students - Provides recommendations for the reauthorization of NCLB, Alliance for Excellent Education.
September 4, 2007 - Major Concerns with Miller-McKeon Title I Draft - An outline of some of the problems with the NCLB draft from the U.S. House Education Committee, National Education Association.
August 28, 2007 - Draft NCLB Renewal Plan - Revises how AYP is calculated and overhauls the interventions for schools failing to meet achievement goals, Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives.
June/July 2007 - Gauging Growth: How to Judge No Child Left Behind? - Progress in raising test scores was stronger before No Child Left Behind was approved in 2002, compared with the four years following enactment of the law, Educational Researcher (Posted online by the American Educational Research Association).
July 2007 - Open to the Public: How Communities, Parents and Students Assess the Impact of the No Child Left Behind Act 2004 - 2007 The Realities Left Behind - Accountability for educating all children to their full potential is essential, but this particular goal of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act cannot be achieved unless policymakers address fundamental issues of resources, capacities and will within the public education system, Public Education Network.
June 6, 2007 - Position Statement on No Child Left Behind (NCLB), Public Education Network.
May-June 2007 - An Inside Look at the National Education Association’s Agenda for Reauthorizing ESEA-NCLB - A concise overview of the NEA's seven criteria for NCLB reauthorization. Consider printing for parent group discussion, local action, National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education.
May 2007 - What Every Parent, Teacher, and Community Member Needs to Know About No Child Left Behind - NCLB review and recommendations, Oakland Education Association.
April 11, 2007 - Education Trust Recommendations for No Child Left Behind Reauthorization - Gives states three options for calculating AYP, (Full Report).
April 4, 2007 - Joint Statement on Reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) - Governors, chief state school officers, and state boards of education members offer recommendations to improve academic achievement, National Governors Association, Council of Chief State School Officers, and the National Association of State Boards of Education (Transmittal Letter).
March 2007 - PTA Recommendations for Parent Involvement in the Reauthorization of ESEA-NCLB, National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education.
March 28, 2007 - NCLB Reauthorization: Effective Strategies for Engaging Parents and Communities in Schools - Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
March 15, 2007 - Republicans Propose Testing Changes for No Child Left Behind, Public Agenda
March 1, 2007 - Positions on the Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (NCLB), American Association of School Administrators.
February 15, 2007 - Framework for Reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act: Recommendations to Improve and Strengthen the Law - Calls on Congress to strengthen and improve NCLB provisions and funding, while retaining features designed to raise student achievement and close achievement gaps, Business Coalition for Student Achievement.
Education Issues 2007 - Recaps the current issues in accountability and assessment, teacher quality, access and equity, graduation rates, public perception and national student performance data from the perspective of a for-profit testing service provider, Education Testing Service (Full Report).
January 2007 - Building On Results: A Blueprint For Strengthening NCLB / Fomentar más resultados positivos: Un plan para mejorar la NCLB, President George W. Bush 2007 State of the Union Policy Initiatives.
Commission on No Child Left Behind - A bipartisan, independent effort dedicated to improving the No Child Left Behind Act.
"The 'Beyond NCLB' Commission suggests that every teacher in the nation be evaluated primarily based upon the 'value-added test scores' of students. If such a proposal were adopted, it would turn every classroom in the nation into a test-prep factory."
David Marshak, emeritus professor, Seattle University
December 2006 - Framing the Debate - With the No Child Left Behind Act up for renewal next year, players on the policy stage are staking out positions on what they want to see changed, Education Week.
November 2006 - Ten Big Effects of the No Child Left Behind Act on Public Schools, Center on Education Policy.
October 2006 - ESEA Reauthorization Policy Statement - ESEA and its implementation must evolve to fit with the next stage of standards-based reform, shifting from the law’s current focus on prescriptive compliance requirements to a law focused on providing real incentives for innovative state and local models along with fair and meaningful accountability for results, Council of Chief State School Officers.
July 2006 - Positive Agenda for ESEA [NCLB] Reauthorization, National Education Association.
December 2005 - Room to Maneuver: A Progress Report on the No Child Left Behind Act - 87% of Minnesota schools showed adequate yearly progress in 2004–2005; 97% of Minnesota teachers were deemed highly qualified, Education Week.
August 2005 - Getting Smarter, Becoming Fairer: A Progressive Education Agenda for a Stronger Nation - Center for American Progress and the Institute for America's Future.
Recommendations:
1. More and better use of learning time
2. High Expectations
3. Highly qualified teachers and effective leaders for all schools.
4. Connecting schools with families and communities.
April 2005 - The Impact of the No Child Left Behind Act on Student Achievement and Growth, Northwest Evaluation Association (Press Release).
March 2005 - From the Capital to the Classroom: Year 3 of the No Child Left Behind Act, Center on Education Policy.
March 2005 - Open to the Public: Speaking Out on “No Child Left Behind”, Summary of Nine Hearings May–October 2004, Public Education Network.
December 2004 - NCLB: Taking Root - A progress report on the states' implementation of the federal law, Education Week [Free Log In Required].
January 2004 - From the Capital to the Classroom: Year 2 of the No Child Left Behind Act - States and school districts are trying hard to meet the requirements of the Act and agree with its goals; broader and deeper effects of the law were being felt by school districts in 2003, which is resulting in additional help for schools identified for improvement; choosing another public school is rarely used by parents of children in identified schools, while the option of receiving tutoring services is used more frequently; states and school districts are moving slowly to update the qualifications of teachers and paraprofessionals as required by the Act; some of the requirements of the Act are unworkable; and states and school districts face serious funding pressures and a lack of capacity to carry out the Act, Center for Education Policy.
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Archive of Hearings - U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce.
The Condition of Education - The annual report (required by law) on the condition and progress of education in the U.S. Prepared by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
Education Division Publications - National Governor's Association Center for Best Practices.
Report to the Nation: State Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, Education Commission of the States
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