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  2. Elementary and Secondary Education Act - Wikipedia

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    The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was passed by the 89th United States Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1965. Part of Johnson's "War on Poverty", the act has been one of the most far-reaching laws affecting education passed by the United States Congress, and was reauthorized by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

  3. Coefficient of determination - Wikipedia

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    Ordinary least squares regression of Okun's law.Since the regression line does not miss any of the points by very much, the R 2 of the regression is relatively high.. In statistics, the coefficient of determination, denoted R 2 or r 2 and pronounced "R squared", is the proportion of the variation in the dependent variable that is predictable from the independent variable(s).

  4. List of United States education acts - Wikipedia

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    National School Lunch Act and Child Nutrition Amendments Amended several aspects of the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act Pub. L. 95–166: 1977 (No short title) Amended the Higher Education Act to grant the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands the same benefits under the act as states.

  5. List of research universities in the United States - Wikipedia

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    R1 institutions will be defined as those that (1) have $50 million in research expenditures, and (2) grant 70 research doctorates. Other changes to the classification system include multiple labels to identify institutions, and recognition for non-doctoral universities.

  6. Law - Wikipedia

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    Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, [1] with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It has been variously described as a science [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and as the art of justice.

  7. No Child Left Behind Act - Wikipedia

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    The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) [1] [2] was a 2002 U.S. Act of Congress promoted by the presidency of George W. Bush. It reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students. [3]

  8. Affirmative action in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The modern history begins in 1961 when President John F. Kennedy in 1961 issued Executive Order 10925, which required government contractors to take "affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin."

  9. Compulsory public education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    "You cannot practice democratic living in segregated schools," said one Columbia professor, referring to Catholic schools. [11] At a debate at Harvard Law School, a Methodist bishop called parochial schools un-American. [12] In 1952, prominent educators openly attacked "nonpublic schools" at a convention of public school superintendents in Boston.