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Guess what? Kids got left behind

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President Bush made a big deal about how he wanted to make sure that all children had equal access to educational opportunity, so he passed the No Child Left Behind, causing schools everywhere to stop teaching children to learn and instead teach them how to take the mandated state tests. There have been a lot of outspoken critics of the NCLB act, including parents and teachers.

Now there is some new evidence that the act did not succeed as well as hoped. A study done by the University of Chicago has found some interesting facts about the results of NCLB. It seems that the middle 70% of students did improve their test scores, but the highest 10% had no change. The bottom 20%, however, actually got worse -- their test scores dropped after the act passed.

It's no secret that I'm a vocal critic of both the Bush Administration in general and NCLB in particular, but what about you? Have you been affected by NCLB? Have your kids had to take the state tests? What do you think of the act?

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