We have to ask the question whether No Child Left Behind is slowing down progress.
The rate of improvement was faster before the law. There's a question as to whether No Child is slowing down our progress nationwide.
The president is not going to back down on No Child Left Behind. That means these testing companies are going to have to improve very quickly, which will probably mean they'll have to charge the states more.
Despite what the (Bush) administration was claiming, this is an indication that No Child Left Behind may not have made much of a difference because these are the same results we saw before the law was in effect.