Results of No Child Left Behind

Three years after NCLB was instituted: Reading scores among fourth graders remained flat, with 31% of the nation's children at or above proficient in 2002, 2003, and 2005. The share of eighth-grade students proficient or above in reading had fallen two percentage points. The percentage of fourth graders proficient in math continued to climb between 2003 and 2005. Math scores at the eighth-grade level stayed at a flat plateau.