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NCLB (No Child Left Behind Act)

The 2002 version of the ESEA that required annual testing and adequate yearly progress targets; replaced by ESSA in 2015.

Stands for
No Child Left Behind Act
Used in
United States
Topic
Policy and law

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ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) United States
The main federal law for K-12 education, passed in 2015 to replace No Child Left Behind, requiring annual testing in some grades and state-designed accountability systems.
AYP (Adequate yearly progress) United States
The NCLB-era measure of whether schools were meeting annual achievement targets.

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