President Barack Obama on Saturday promised to rewrite the nation's sweeping and controversial education law known as No Child Left Behind with a plan to prepare students for life after high school and to place better teachers at the blackboards.
SEATTLE (AP) -- Governors and education leaders on Wednesday proposed sweeping new school standards that could lead to students across the country using the same math and English textbooks and taking the same tests, replacing a patchwork of state and local systems in an attempt to raise student achievement nationwide.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Students in third- through 10th-grade will take the reading and math portions and students in fifth-, eighth- and 11th-grades will also take a science portion.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- The sponsor calls it a "hammer." The head of Florida's statewide teachers union says it's more like a "nuclear weapon."
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