There is a lot of interesting reading in this forum and I'm going to have to disagree with many of the posts. NCLB is an unfunded mandate that all schools will perform at a 100% success rate for reading scores. (By the way I am a teacher and a certified school administrator and a scout leader.)
There is a flaw in the formula which is that all of us are created equal and that is false. If it were true, we'd all be doctors and lawyers or NBA basketball players at our discretion. The other countries that we "are lagging behind" only test the students who are in the "higher math and sci
