With Passage of Every Student Succeeds Act, Life After NCLB Begins (neaToday.org)
On December 10, President Obama, with a stroke of a pen, made it official: the No Child Left Behind era is over. Obama signed into law the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), one day after it was passed by an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote in the U.S. Senate, which followed broad passage in the House last week. The Every Student Succeeds Act is the seventh reauthorization of the landmark Elementary and Secondary Education Act , first passed in 1965, and the first since 2002 when...