The National Schoolmarm: No Child Left Behind and the New Educational Federalism

Patrick McGuinn

Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 2005, vol. 35, issue 1, 41-68

Abstract: The 2002 No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law dramatically reshaped the federal role in K-12 education in the United States. The implementation of NCLB has been difficult and contentious, but much of the journalistic and scholarly coverage has underestimated the source, strength, and stability of the political coalition that originally pushed for passage of the law and appears likely to sustain federal activism in education for the long term. For much of American history, the principle of federalism exerted a powerful restraining influence on the size and character of the federal role in education—but that time appears to have passed. Regardless of whether NCLB ultimately improves schools or student achievement, the law has created a new educational federalism in the United States. Copyright 2005, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2005
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