Friday, April 13, 2018

Nation’s "Report Card" Shows Federal Intervention Has Not Helped Students | The Heritage Foundation

Nation’s "Report Card" Shows Federal Intervention Has Not Helped Students | The Heritage Foundation:

Image result for free clip art School"Yet more than half a century after Johnson signed Elementary and Secondary Education Act into law, and 38 years after the Department of Education became operational, it has become clear that federal intervention in K-12 education has failed to achieve its primary goal: reducing gaps in academic outcomes between disadvantaged students and their more advantaged peers.
On Tuesday, the National Center for Education Statistics at the Department of Education released the highly anticipated results of the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, often referred to as the nation’s “report card,” underscoring that point"

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