[DRAFT] No Child Left Behind: A Plan to Dismantle Public Education

The NCLB views schools not as tools for improving student success, but rather as obstacles to that success. Its real purpose was not to improve schools but to destabilize public education, pave the way for mass school privatization, and beef up the military. From that perspective, it's much more of a success: American public education is facile and shallow, students and teachers alike are under record pressure to perform on ever-dwindling resources, and a growing proportion of parents wants to shift their children (and funding) away from public schools and into private ones. No real plan to improve education can succeed on a model of punishment; instead, it must be based on investment.