No Child Left Behind ... Except Some Minorites

The No Child Left Behind Act requires that students of all races must make progress or schools can face penalties. States, however, are helping public schools mask minority test scores in order to create a 'false picture of academic progress' according to the Associated Press. The AP discovered that nearly 2 million test scores, primarily from minority students, are being excluded from the required educational reporting as stipulated by No Child Left Behind. Education observers are concerned that the primary concern among these schools is not so much to 'generate statistically reliable results' but rather to manufacture 'politically palatable' reports.

Many are obviously worried that the No Child Left Behind program is actually leaving minority students behind, while others see facts becoming less important than PC language. Is this program creating unrealistic blanket expectations or, as some have argued, are educators shirking the metric because it will mean too much work?

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