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Dillon, Sam – New York Times, 2003
No Child Left Behind requires that all teachers have a degree in every subject they teach or pass an exam that proves they are "highly qualified" to teach that subject. A story from one Montana town demonstrates how the law is unrealistic for rural and small schools where one teacher may teach many subjects and where teachers are already…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
