I can only repeat a quote from a high school principal that I respect. "No Child Left Behind is one of the worst things to happen to education in the last fifty years--it is driving good teachers out of the classroom, entrenching bad teachers in a massive bureaucracy, changing us from teaching principles to teaching answers to the test, and measuring our progress not on what children know when they graduate and whether they can succeed in college or the workplace, but on a set of meaningless numbers that the bureaucrats can record on a spread sheet." I trust her judgment.
BTW, what happened to the school vouchers that Bush and his crowd campaigned on?