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Today, the Center for Education Policy released a report, "Answering the Question That Matters Most: Has Student Achievement Increased Since No Child Left Behind?" The report is about 98 pages, but  here are its five main conclusions (No Child Left Behind is federal legislation that requires all schools to have 100 percent of students reading and doing math on grade level by 2014. Schools are expected to make a certain amount of progress each year toward the goal and some schools face sanctions for failing to do so): 1. In most states with three or more years of comparable test data, student achievement in reading and math has gone up since 2002, the year NCLB was enacted. 2. There is more evidence of achievement gaps between groups of students narrowing since 2002 than of gaps widening. Still, the magnitude of the gaps is often substantial. 3. In 9 of the 13 states with sufficient data to determine pre- and post-NCLB trends, average yearly gains in test...
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