With the educational needs of the highest and lowest performing students unmet, student achievement regresses to a new mean. All children are left behind.

1. How No Child Left Behind
leaves all children behind

2. A normal distribution of student
performance.

3. Automatically
left out
NCLB forces schools to focus attention
away from educating students that
outperform their peers since they are
expected to test well with or without
school support.

4. Society
Automatically
leaves
left out
behind
NCLB fails to create systemic changes in
special education or address
socioeconomic realities that forge
underperforming students.

5. The new mean.
Society
Automatically
leaves
left out
behind
With the educational needs of the
highest and lowest performing students
unmet, student achievement regresses
to a new mean. All children are left
behind.