Responce to No Child Left Behind

I admit I was a little naive about NCLB and its position in the school system. I understood from a broad perspective what it entailed but I did not know about the numbers and the details supporting it, like the three percent of students that are exempt and the remainder of "special students" who are counted which can bring the scores down for a particular school. For as long as I have been in school, the whole idea of testing has never been a beneficiary aspect of school, or at least it never seemed so. I remember my teachers would often neglect current class material to cram things to teach us quickly before testing time. In my philosophy education class, we have been talking about Emerson, Dewey and DeBois' educational philosophies, and I realize that the common idea among all of their philosophies lies in learning by experiences and through a focus on the needs of the children alone. America thinks that they have finally caught a handle on education and bringing equality to education for all students, however this testing method with its apparent advantages I think they project a more disadvantage because children are still being neglected in the process, and others are pressured to perform to the best of their ability despite their disposition good or bad.