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You're missing the point.  The complaining and "high stakes" moniker only seems to come up when it affects teachers.  But when it was affecting millions of students nobody cared.[/quote]

Were you out of the country during the 2000s? People have been complaining about No Child Left Behind and high-stakes testing basically since No Child Left Behind became law, which (as far as I know) was at least a decade before any teacher performance evaluation system in the country included a test-results component.

You could start by reading this book, which was published in 2008.

http://www.amazon.com/Tested-American-School-Struggles-Grade/dp/0805088024[/quote]

And apparently you missed it when everyone was complaining that millions of kids were graduating from high school semiliterate, unable to make change, or to point out the Pacific Ocean on a world map.  I guess none of that matters to you.[/quote]

Has No Child Left Behind had a positive effect on this problem, in your opinion?[/quote]

It at least got educators' attention, since they had been asleep at the switch for a decade prior...[/quote]

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