id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt WOS-000381272300008 McGuinn, P From No Child Left behind to the Every Student Succeeds Act: Federalism and the Education Legacy of the Obama Administration 2016 .txt text/plain 162 4 17 Faced with partisan gridlock in Congress-which was not able to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) until the last year in office-the Obama Administration opted to make education policy through creative, expansive, and controversial uses of executive power that changed the national political discourse around education and pushed states to enact important policy changes regarding charter schools, common core standards and assessments, and teacher evaluation. The administration's aggressive efforts on school reform, however, eventually led to a political backlash against those same reforms and federal involvement in education more generally and resulted in an ESEA reauthorization (the 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act) that rolls back the federal role in K-12 schooling in important ways. cache/WOS-000381272300008.txt txt/WOS-000381272300008.txt