“ Most troublesome to some experts was the way the No Child law’s mandate to bring students to proficiency on tests, coupled with its lack of a requirement that they graduate, created a perverse incentive to push students to drop out. If low-achieving students leave school early, a school’s performance can rise.
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Read that last sentence. And weep. How could anyone think NCLB was a good program?!?
States’ Data Obscure How Few Finish High School - New York Times
