Reason Roundtable
No Child Left Behind Act

December 13, 2007

Reason Foundation's Shikha Dalmia writes, "The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) - one of the grandest initiatives of the Bush presidency - is in trouble. Few outside the small band of Bush administration brothers - and sisters - believe that the law is even remotely close to achieving its goals. Its reauthorization is stalled in Congress and the big debate right now is whether it should be scrapped altogether - or seriously reformed."

Dalmia, Erin Dillon, a policy analyst at Education Sector, and Andrew Coulson, director of education policy at the Cato Institute, examine where and why NCLB is failing and what should be done about it. Reader comments are welcome. Please click here to comment on this Reason Roundtable. Shikha Dalmia, editor of Reason Roundtable, can be reached at shikha.dalmia@reason.org. The Reason Roundtable archive is here.

No Child Left Behind Act: Keep it or Kill it?
Shikha Dalmia, Editor of Reason Roundtable

The Constitution Left Behind
Andrew J. Coulson, Director of the Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom

Scrap NCLB? No
Erin Dillon, Policy Analyst at Education Sector

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