No Child Left Behind (NCLB)

Updated May 2008

Public Law print of PL 107-110, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

Books

• Library Catalog
  Conduct a subject “Begins With” search using the following subject heading: United States. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
• Lens
  Lens can be very helpful for locating books on No Child Left Behind. Lens uses relevancy ranking, and includes inhanced content such as book reviews, summaries, and table of contents. Lens also provides ways to limit your research results by using "facets", such as call number range, publication date, language, location, etc.
  

Journal Articles

• Education Abstracts
  Education Abstracts indexes English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the U.S. and elsewhere. Use the "Advanced Search" option, conducting a Subject Keyword search on "NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT OF 2001"
• ERIC
  ERIC does not have an thesaurus term for NCLB, therefore, conduct a traditional keyword search on No Child Left Behind. Learn more about the ERIC database.

Newspapers and News Reports

• Education News
  The Library's guide to news resources about education and education policy. Many of the major education news magazines and publications have extensive coverage of NCLB.
• News Research Guide
  The Library's guide to newspapers, news broadcasts, and news databases. Newspapers are especially helpful for insight into NCLB at the state and local level.

Congressional Publications

• LexisNexis Congressional
  LexisNexis provides access to most congressional publications, including legislative histories, hearings, reports, documents, etc. A great source for information about NCLB's passage and the controversies around the law.
  

Selected Web Resources

• No Child Left Behind Reauthorization
  U.S. Department of Education
  Outlines the Bush Administration's proposals on the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind.
• NCLB
  U.S. Department of Education
  Provides various resources on No Child Left Behind Act (ESEA Title I) and its implementation.
• No Child Left Behind: A Desktop Reference
  U.S. Department of Education
  A guide for administrators on NCLB.
  
• No Child Left Behind:
  Education Commission of the States
  ECS has identified NCLB as one of its issues for attention and maintains a web site of resources.
• Education Reform
  The White House
  Outlines the Bush Administration's various education policies, including NCLB.
• No Child Left Behind
  Illinois State Board of Education
  Illinois standards and policies regarding NCLB.
• NCLB - Let's Get It Right!
  National Federation of Teachers
  Resources on NCLB from the National Federation of Teachers.
• Everything You Wanted to Know About NCLB
  Public Education Network
  Offers a variety of publications, reports, interviews about NCLB.
• Center on Education Policy
  Offers a number of reports, studies and recommendations about NCLB.
• No Child Left Behind
  National Conference of State Legislatures
  News, resources, and guides to NCLB for state legislators.
• No Child Left.com
  This website is in opposition to the provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act and suggests "Build the capacity of schools to improve first. Hold off high stakes testing and tranfers until later." It is a publication of FNO Press, a company that specializes in producing "publications that speak to the challenge of making healthy, sustained improvement in the way students learn and teachers orchestrate that learning." One of the company's well-known titles is From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal founded by Jamie McKenzie, Ed.D., a former teacher, principal and superintendent.
• Testing Our Schools
  Frontline, PBS
  The companion web site to the Frontline program "Testing Our Schools", which aired on on March 28, 2002