What Is the Future of NCLB?
Few Americans and educators believe that NCLB, in its current form, will produce anything close to 100 percent proficiency by 2014. Given widening skepticism, sweeping changes to NCLB are in order if it is to survive. Exactly what changes should be implemented are unclear; with such profound differences of opinion over what exactly students should be learning and how to measure their progress, it remains, at least at the moment, impossible to determine NCLB’s future.
