No Child Left Behind Lacks Bite 

Worst-Performing Schools Rarely Adopt Radical Remedies 

By Robert Tomsho, The Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2008 

Critics of the federal No Child Left Behind law, including Democratic presidential candidates vowing to overhaul or end it, have often accused it of being too harsh. It punishes weak schools instead of supporting them, as Sen. Barack Obama puts it.