K-12.The NAACP NAACP in full National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Oldest and largest U.S. civil rights organization. It was founded in 1909 to secure political, educational, social, and economic equality for African Americans; W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Legal Defense Fund of New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. has intervened legally to block Mayor Bloomberg's 3rd grade retention policy. Many parents were told that their child might not be promoted to fourth grade based on his or her scores on the standardized tests. For information on the results of the legal intervention, go to www.classsizematters.org. In "Educate All Children" (In These Times, August 9, 2004), Barbara Miner of Rethinking Schools analyzes the No Child Left Behind Act The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-110), commonly known as NCLB (IPA: /ˈnɪkəlbiː/), is a United States federal law that was passed in the House of Representatives on May 23, 2001 (NCLB NCLB No Child Left Behind (US education initiative) ) as a blatant attack on free, public education by the Bush administration and its allies. |
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