The secret is out that No Child Left Behind's brand of measuring success and failure for students and schools does not work. For five years, principals and teachers across the country have been subjected to immense pressure to bump up students' test scores, by any means necessary. While NCLB certainly did not introduce high-stakes standardized testing, it has escalated it to an unprecedented level.
Unfortunately for NCLB-touters, raising test scores and raising student learning are not the same thing, as Bob...
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