In a post titled, «Time for Regime Change in Education», Dan Brown says there is a single question to be asked:

‘A single question cuts to the heart of America’s education dilemma:
’1. spend all of their class time on only reading and math test preparation?
’2. study a balanced diet of subjects including reading, writing, math, science, social studies and civics, music, the arts, health, and physical education?’
—The Huffington Post

He further writes, ‘Unfortunately where we stand now, No Child Left Behind and its attendant logic of fixating on standardized test scores have sucked the marrow and quality time out of school days.‘

I’d have to agree … to a point. As a teacher, NCLB and the mentality surrounding it threaten to suck the life and joy and quality out of teaching as well.