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How the No Child Left Behind Law (NCLB) with it's emphasis on Standardized Testing DOES NOT Measure Your Child's Abilities

*Poor Design / Awkward Implementation

STUDY: Reading First: Pillar of Bush's Education Program, Ineffective (1 May 2008)

"No Child Left Behind" After Six Years: An Escalating Track Record of Failure (25 January 2008)

More Tests Dumbing-Down Students (reprinted in Ann Arbor News 26 Mar2006)

Harvard Civil Rights Project shows how NCLB's battery of standardized testing has been so diluted by individual state's negotiated exceptions, that they don't measure anything anymore.

*Cronyism / Corruption

Bush Family Profits from NCLB

Corruption and Mismanagement with Reading First Program

*Sacrifice of Content-Focused Instructional Time

*Places over-emphasis on test preparation (rather than meaningful skill building)

Evaluation Reform Figures Prominently in Aspen Institute Report

More Information on No Child Left Behind and Standardized Testing

fairtest.org

susanohanian.org