NCLB: NO Child Left Behind

This Washington Post article investigates some of the effects of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). I have not yet read NCLB. However, I would like to address the issue of resource allocation in education.

Maria Glod suggests in her article that NCLB has created an undesired effect allowing gifted students to transfer out of poorly performing schools. She insists that NCLB was intended to allow the students with low performance to transfer out. However, mixing gifted and poorly performing students to raise a school's average would be tantamount to fraud.

Is the goal of the school system to ensure average scholastic intelligence and fitness (AS IF)? AS IF ensures that no student is allowed to achieve. Students are not encouraged to excel.

The act is called No Child Left Behind, but the way to achieve this cannot possibly be to ensure that no child is able to leave behind an underperforming education for bigger and better things.

This is one of my new issues. So you will continue to see future posts entitled NCLB.