NoChildLeftBehind

Lofty goals drove the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001; among them, to bring more accountability to school systems, to provide a comparison between schools and state standards, and to establish core competency goals. While educators are bitterly split over the effectiveness of this strategy, it was...

No Child Left Behind has been a controversial change to the nation's educational system, but it has been good to me. Every state is now required to give a set of tests to track the student's progress, spawning an entire industry to score these exams. These companies hire tens of thousands of people...