NC Voices: Put to the Test Part 1
Thursday, January 10 2008
by Emily Hanford
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Six years ago this month, President George W. Bush signed "No Child Left Behind" - a law that requires states to create testing programs to measure student progress in school. The goal is to get every student to pass the tests by the year 2014. The clock is ticking, and so far the results are mixed. Are the tests helping? Is education getting better? To look for answers, reporters from W-U-N-C’s "North Carolina Voices" project teamed up with American RadioWorks, the documentary unit of American Public Media. They spent two years at one North Carolina high school to observe up-close how "No Child Left Behind" is working. Emily Hanford has part one of our series from Western Guilford High School in Greensboro. Find out more about this series here.
