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Back to School
How do you define the average American student? And how do you make him or her better -- enhance their knowledge base, boost their performance and better prepare them for the real world? Policymakers, educators and students must wrestle with those and other questions as they embark on a new school year full of challenges. Full story | Student profile overview




Schools under the knife
Pervasive budget cuts undermine student experience
Keeping current in class
Increased interest, shortage of time to teach current events

No Child Left Behind
An interactive look at the historic 2002 federal legislation
Higher education, costs
State budget crises spawn increases in public college tuition rates

Will U.S. schools be better or worse off with the 'No Child Left Behind' federal school reform legislation?
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