NCLB overwhelming U.S. testing industry

 A handful of companies create, print and score most of the tests in the U.S. and they’re struggling with a workload that has exploded since President Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002. “The testing industry in the U.S. is buckling under the weight of NCLB demands,” said Thomas Toch, co–director of Education Sector, a Washington–based think tank. When Education Sector surveyed 23 states in 2006, it found that 35 percent of testing offices in those states had experienced “significant”errors with scoring and 20 percent didn’t get results “in a timely fashion.” Read the article on the Boston Herald website.