This is only a test: How two hours determine the future of a school

“So due to a simple law, the entire staff at Joseph Gallagher may soon be fired because some 11-year-old named Nzeyimana can’t use the word “prowl” in a sentence.”

Here’s a story from the Cleveland Scene, which does a nice job of conveying the perversion foisted on schools by the No Child Left Behind law, where if such schools don’t make “adequate yearly progress,” (including year-to-year test score increases for non-English speaking and cognitively disabled students), the state has the right to fire the principal, teachers, and staff and shut down the school.

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