Claudio Sanchez

It's been nearly one year since President Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act, a major expansion of the federal government's oversight of local public education. Michele Norris talks with NPR Education Correspondent Claudio Sanchez about the law's impact so far -- and what's ahead for the coming year.

In the final part of the Educating Latinos series, NPR's Claudio Sanchez talks with Hispanic families about the often-conflicting educational and cultural pressures that teenagers face. Many Latino students say they feel trapped between their parents' emphasis on their culture and heritage and the very different demands of American youth culture.

Latino students make up the largest minority group of America's school-age population -- and there's broad consensus that public schools aren't meeting their needs. In Arizona, educators and parents remain bitterly divided over bilingual education, which voters banned two year ago. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports.

Latino students make up the largest minority group of America's school-age population -- and there's broad consensus in research and policy circles that public schools are not doing a good job of meeting their needs. In the first of a five-part special report on U.S. Latinos and education, NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports from Gainesville, Ga., on one community's efforts to educate the area's burgeoning Hispanic population.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on a program intended to help teachers regain a passion for their profession. The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching takes groups into the Great Smoky Mountains, away from the clamor and stress of the classroom and school politics, to encourage them to remember why they started teaching in the first place.