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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
The Department of Education was born in 1979, not 1965 (for clarification).

Yes, get rid of the testing.  Has anyone proved that the NCLB Act testing and its ramifications ever caused improvement for students?  Where is the proof?  It seems like the reverse, if anything, happened.  The DOE has some benefit, but it has become bloated and people are doing things to be doing things and are not there to improve education.  The power struggles are ridiculous.[/quote]

The No Child Left Behind Act was the 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which goes back to 1965. The testing part is only one component of NCLB. Other components include Title I (federal funding for schools with a lot of poor children); grants to the states for teacher training, technology, and English language acquisition; and federal impact aid (federal funding to school districts affected by federal property, on which property tax is not paid).

http://febp.newamerica.net/background-analysis/no-child-left-behind-overview[/quote]

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