Can I be real blunt here. No Child Left Behind or not, if the child learns what he is taught in school, then the test wont be a problem. Problem is, the schools are teaching to the test, not the teachers. The teachers are being told to teach to the test to make the higher ups look good.

As for curriculm, with 15 point curved in classes on all tests, all I have to do to get an A is study for a 75, a C. Did I really learn anything? This is what happened in college with me. I graduated in Biology & Chemistry and almost every test in every class had this 15 point curve. How does that help learning again?

We are appluading mediocrity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!