NCLB (No Child Left Behind)
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NCGA (No Child Gets Ahead)
Keepin’ the Herd Together For the Greater Good
I disagree because I’ve seen the exact opposite in practice. Without NCLB, schools could concentrate on the middle, assuming the good students would offest the bad and the school-wide average result was what mattered. Under NCLB, each measurable group must make progress, so even the gifted students must be taught, not be allowed to skate by and provide cover for another group. There may well be other troubling aspects to NCLB, but from the perspective of applying business-style metrics to all aspects of the “product line,” it is a success IMHO.