Great post on why No Child is such a crock

http://www.good.is/post/teaching-notes-from-the-front-lines-3

The idea behind NCLB is that teachers are interchangeable production units and that students are just widgets that need to be have so much time on the bench from each production unit before passing the widget over to the testing bench where we determine whether the production unit needs realignment or even total replacement (because the widgets are totally indifferent to which production unit they are manipulated by).

This story is a poignant explanation of the reality -- which is of course 180 out from the doctrine exemplified by No Child Left Behind and the idiots who imposed it and who continue to back it.