In February 2012, President Obama announced the end of No Child Left Behind as we know it: waivers for any state willing to meet the Administration's standards. In the latest American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Education Outlook, Ben Riley from NewSchools Venture Fund explains the potential perils of this plan.

Obama's 2011 Elementary and Secondary Education Act Flexibility plan grants certain states waivers from No Child Left Behind accountability requirements if they agree to a series of preset conditions, but the waiver plan poses several notable risks.

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Congress shouldlearn fromits shameful handling of the immigration bill.

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales will speak about judicial philosophy and the judicial selection process.

Please note that this event is open only to those with invitations and members of the media with accredited press passes.

This bookhighlights the costs of a malfunctioning Congress on national policymaking, and outlines what must be done to repair the damage.

In The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track (Oxford University Press, 2006), authors Norman J. Ornstein and Thomas E. Mann suggest that over the past fifteen years, Congress has seen the collapse of the deliberative process, the erosion of the regular...