Education Weekly

Critics Float‘No Child’ Revisions Hoping for amendments as early as next year, critics of the No Child Left Behind Act have begun to circulate proposals for fixing what they view as major flaws in the law's accountability provisions. (Education Week, Aug. 11, 2004.)

Court Rejects Seattle PolicyWeighing Race Legal experts see a federal appeals court decision striking down Seattle’s system for assigning students to high school as a significant development in the debate over what districts can voluntarily do to promote demographic diversity in the post-desegregation era.

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