부산대학교 도서관

Part of a special issue on the implications for social justice of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. An application of microeconomic theory to NCLB suggests that there is no financially feasible method of achieving a high quality education for all students so long as there is a rigid demarcation between passing and failing combined with a 100 percent proficiency requirement. Consequently, there is a need to address this legislation's combination of high stakes testing, rigid test scores, and 100-percent proficiency rates.