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Obama Wants 'No Child' Overhaul

Would eliminate 2014 proficiency deadline.

Another plate for President Obama to spin: He wants to overhaul No Child Left Behind. The president will seek to change the way schools are judged as successes or failures and will eliminate the law’s 2014 deadline for bringing every single American student to academic proficiency. Sources say he'll seek to replace the law’s binary pass-fail accountability system with one that divides schools into more nuanced categories, and that he’d replace the 2014 deadline, which Education Secretary Arne Duncan has called a “utopian goal,” with the goal of having all students leave high school “college or career ready.”

Read it at The New York Times

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