No Child Left Behind: Noble Sentiment and Poor Design

Some good reasons more eloquently stated and better outlined why I and 99.99% of educators have no use for the bipartisan NCLB of 2001

Excerpt: NCLB gives standardized testing the central place in assessing school quality. Standardized testing, regardless of the way it is done, is neither an accurate nor adequate measure of school quality.A too-heavy reliance on test scores as measures of school quality will result in some schools appearing to be much better than they are and some much worse, just as too-heavy reliance on quarterly profit and loss statements can make business corporations appear to be in better or worse shape than they are.

This can be found at: http://www.schlechtycenter.org/pdfs/nclb.pdf