3 thoughts here:<p>1) There&#x27;s a lot going on in No Child Left Behind, but one of the interesting ideas is to segment up the student population by gender, income level, minority group, etc and define failure via measurement of inadequate scores in any subgroup.<p>2) I&#x27;m not convinced most states should be spending the time or resources setting their own individual educational programs.  With the global economy we are in, it&#x27;s not like the needs of students in Washington state are that different than Oregon or North Carolina.  This infrastructure overlap provides a lot of job security for administrators.<p>3) Lastly, its hard to strike the right balance between the benefits of longitudinal testing, not spending too much time testing students instead of teaching them, and lastly not teaching students to pass the test (instead of try in learn the underlying concepts).<p>Suffice to say, there&#x27;s a lot going with these bills and their subsequent iterations.