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Posted inElementary to High School, Opinion

Does the new education law throw out the baby with the bathwater? We’ll see in four years

Last week’s long-delayed reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 – now dubbed Every Student Succeeds (ESSA) — demonstrated what our deadlocked politics can do when the stars align: get rid of a bad law that nobody wants around anymore. With No Child Left Behind (NCLB) dumped at the curb, many are proclaiming the […]