No Child Left Behind Good or Bad?

Now is the general trend of standardized testing or No Child Left Behind actually beneficial for students in the United States? I currently do not think that it is the best way to teach kids in our school system. If you really dig into what it is doing for students I see hardly any benefits from standardized testing and No Child Left Behind. I know if you’re a parent that you would like to know your child is experiencing the same curriculum as other students and not getting taught something from a teacher that may be controversial or something you don’t agree with but NCLB actual contradicts what it says it does.
There are many bad things about NCLB that many people pass over I think when discussing this topic. The biggest problem is that teaching has changed to teaching for a test instead of learning the topic completely. This means that NCLB is currently dumbing-down curriculum standards. It relies completely on standardized test scores to label each student in different categories such as “needs improvement” or “above standards”. Also, standardized tests have been found to be bias as schools with a majority of Latinas, African-Americans, and Asian-Americans are scoring lower on the tests somewhat because of other reasons then bias questions like economic status, yes. But, also studies have shown test to have bias questions. This has labeled different ethnicities as less intelligent in the work space creating more difficultly finding jobs for certain people. I found one site that showed dropout rates to have increased since NCLB was put in place. All in all I believe that NCLB is hurting the learning of children in America.I also think that NCLB is putting and emphasis on the children who are falling behind which unfortunately is hurting the exceptionally intelligence students as we don’t push for them to a higher level.