Your thoughts on changes to the nations education laws. Parents 2,027,488,202,748,001 and 202,748,003. You can send us an email or facebook. Start dialling in and well get to your thoughts and how you would change education policy in this country. But first joining us on the phone this morning is lauren camera, reporter for Education Week to talk about the debate. Lets begin with the house approving legislation narrowly last night to rewrite the no child left behind law. Why this debate now . The education law no child left behind expired in 2007. Right if did expire some time ago. Essentially what you have is people and states operating under a system of the department of education right now. Its been a big battle to get enough votes on either side to get this moving but it seems Like Congress is getting it going. What motivated lawmakers . What has this administration been doing in the absence of reauthorization or rewrite of no child left behind. What are they doing to motivate the
Period that you are looking at. The wall street journal was started in what year again . In 89. Host a few years after the Financial Times where i work but its the same era, gilded era. Guest started in london, you started in new york. Host and you are the home team but i want to come back to that because i think the parallels between that era and this era are actually very interesting and something that i think about as a business journalist but first off i wanted to note a point of connection you and i both have, we are both from indiana. In my case rural indiana and you are from. Im from a town called whiteland indiana which i wrote about in a book that came out last year called when the new deal came to town. And i wrote a book about how the new deal affected the real people in this little farm village which is back in other days. Host fascinating. Guest anyway, were not talking about that book, we are talking about this one. Host but its relevant because where people come from inf
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