Education Week: A new study out from the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that there may, in fact, be some upside to No Child Left Behind's much-maligned accountability system.
Under the law, Adequate Year Progress, or AYP, required states to increase the number of students rated proficient on state tests each year, with the goal of reaching 100 percent proficiency by 2014. The law established tiered consequences for states that failed to meet the yearly proficiency goals, increasing in severity each subsequent year a school missed its target.
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