No Child Left Behind is Designed by Corporate Interests, not Educators

The Phrase "No Child Left Behind" is a politically designed euphemism intended to present the appearance of concern for learners while it in fact is a destructive program designed to produce windfall profits for foreign corporations. Perhaps the best analysis and demonstration of this statement has been developed by Jonathan Kozol and recently discussed in an interview in Salon.com .

I recommended to the Democrats that they replace these tests with
diagnostic tests, which are given individually by the teacher to her students.
They are anxiety-free and you don't have to wait six months for McGraw-Hill or Harcourt to mis-score them, as they often do. The teacher gets results immediately. And it's not time stolen from education because she actually learns while she's giving this test.

What Kozol is trying to communicate here is that there are two types of
assessment, formative and summative. NCLB is forcing schools to spend too much
time and resources on summative assessments, at the expense of actual
instruction and formative assessment. Only formative assessment is actually beneficial to students and considered part of the education process.The phrase "no child left behind" is designed to be a pseudo-patriotic catch phrase designed to eliminate consideration of the best ways to help learners. Using catch phrases in this manor is merely a way for corporations to steal money intended to benefit students in the same way many unscrupulous defense contractors steal money intended to support the troops, all the while they are endlessly repeating the mantra "support the troops".