NCLB: A Failure?

The so-called No Child Left Behind law is failing to close racial achievement gaps, and it also has failed to improve reading and math achievement overall, despite White House claims to the contrary, according to a recent Harvard study.

The study, done by Harvard’s Civil Rights Project, said the national average of achievement has been flat in reading since 2001 and the growth rate in math is the same as before NCLB. The study also predicted that NCLB would fail to meet its 2014 goals—only 24 to 34 percent of students will meet the reading proficiency goal under current trends, including less than 25 percent of poor and Black students.