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Researchers found large gains in math scores for 4th graders and moderate ones for 8th graders, but no similar evidence for reading achievement.

District misses No Child Left Behind target

Pontiac -- The Pontiac Public School District lost the latest round in a lawsuit it filed against the No Child Left Behind Act

A dozen Missouri public schools that serve high concentrations of low-income students here have met the demands of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

The news from a major new education study is encouraging: Student achievement is going up, and the gaps in test scores between subgroups – such as between African-Americans and whites – are closing across all grade levels and subjects.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan has revitalized the school-reform effort, but he must resist misguided political pressures and choose innovative proposals to continue the effort.

To the surprise of many educators who campaigned last year for change in the White House, the Obama administration's first recipe for school reform relies heavily on Bush-era ingredients and adds others that make unions gag.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s speech today about the future of No Child Left Behind explains why people who had hoped that President Obama's education team would make a clean break with "No Child Left Behind" are angry.

Duncan on NCLB:I always give NCLB credit for exposing achievement gaps, and for requiring that we measure our efforts to improve education by looking at outcomes, rather than inputs.NCLB helped expand the standards and accountability movement.

How has a college in a deprived area of Cornwall managed to become a neet-free zone?No child leaves Treviglas community college in Newquay

A larger share of Philadelphia charter schools met state standards in the last academic year than did district schools, state data released yesterday show.

Maryland and eight other states have set up new accountability systems under No Child Left Behind that have given more flexibility and focus to the efforts to resolve problems at schools that don't meet standards

No Child Left Behind is helping low-achieving students, but high-achieving students have been making smaller gains.

Test scores released on Friday showed some schools, mostly in the Bush, continue to fail their students despite five years of the No Child Left Behind law that was meant to radically reform education.

The departing superintendent blasted the conflicting federal and state accountability measures, calling for an overhaul of the federal system.