Letter to the Editor: No Child Left Behind law nears deadline to implement

Congress doesn’t seem to agree on how to handle the unrealistic and unpopular “no child left behind law” that came into reality in 2001. President Obama sees the 2014 date approaching and he must be assuming he will still be in office. He added eight more states and Washington D.C. to the eleven who no longer have to abide by the main tenets of the unpopular legislation. It is especially unpopular with the N.E.A. and the W.E.A.!

The law requires schools to test students for math and reading annually in third through eighth grades and once in high school. States must have annual targets to pass...