What's wrong with No Child Left Behind?

  If Congress would do what we did at a recent brain and learning conference in Boston—ask 50 teachers from 25 states if the No Child Left Behind Act is working—it would not reauthorize the act in its current form. More than two–thirds of those 50 teachers, with an average of 23 years experience among them teaching in rural and urban communities and in rich and poor schools, said the legislation has only acted to hinder educational achievement. “Children are not being supported to advance,” said one, “they’re being dragged along or held back.” What is the problem? Actually, there are five. Read what veteran teachers Kathy Hirsh–Pasek and Roberta Golinkoff have to say at projo.com, The Providence Journal’s website.