The No Child Left Behind Act -- the education bill passed by Congress in 2001 and signed by George W. Bush in 2002 -- comes up for reauthorization this year. NCLB injected into the federal aid to education program important doses of accountability -- yearly testing of kids from grades 3 to 8, consequences for failing schools, disaggregation of data by race and ethnicity -- and it seems to have resulted in some modest improvements in test scores.

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is opti ...

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