Calling a Cab For Oregon Students.

Examines the real world effect of the No Child Left Behind Act. Effort by Susan Castillo of the Oregon Department of Education to fight the regulations which she felt were unreasonable; Reduction of funding to schools with disadvantaged children which further removes any chance they had in keeping up; Author's agreement in theory with the NCLB, but belief that no paper can erase the problems in public schools; Her experience as an English teacher having to teach math; Special education students who are being dropped at the back of the educational train; Example of the tests the students in her class must pass and the knowledge they will not be able to; Calls for addressing the needs of one student at a time rather than the unrealistic belief that all children will fit in one mold.