http://www.fairtest.orghttp://www.fairtest.org/Failing_Our_Children_Report.htmlit isn't good - a lot of documents and documentation at the above site for anybody wanting to see what a total piece of shit NCLB is.
excerpt:
"NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND" AFTER TWO YEARS:
A TRACK RECORD OF FAILURE
The increasingly visible flaws of the "No Child Left Behind" law and the growing, bi-partisan criticisms of its provisions demonstrate that the law will do more harm than good. NCLB's test-and-punish approach to school reform relies on extremely limited, one-size-fits-all tools that reduce education to little more than test prep programs. It produces unfair decisions and requires unproven, often irrational approaches to complex educational problems. NCLB is clearly underfunded. But fully funding a bad law is not the solution. If the nation's goal really is to leave no child behind, the federal government must overhaul NCLB to ensure that assessment and accountability genuinely improve learning for all students.
* NCLB is based on false assumptions and therefore offers false remedies. The façade that was created to portray Houston and "the Texas Miracle" as national models is crumbling. Independent researchers have shown Houston failed to close the race-based achievement gap, inflated test results by pushing out low-scoring students, and failed to adequately prepare the few who actually graduate for college-level work. Similar high-stakes approaches in other states, such as Alabama and Mississippi, have left students mired at the bottom of national rankings. The U.S. cannot test its way to better schools.
* Nearly all schools will eventually be rated "In Need of Improvement" because of the way Adequate Yearly Progress statistics are calculated. A recent California study confirms the findings of other researchers that the more diverse a student body, the more likely schools or districts will fail to make sufficient progress in test results to avoid NCLB sanctions. While diverse, high-poverty schools will fail and be punished sooner, the consensus among researchers is that almost every school will eventually fall short of the arbitrary improvement requirements.