Resumen
En 2012 se cumplieron 10 años de la implementación de No Child Left Behind (NCLB) o “Ningún niño atrás” en su traducción al español. NCLB es la ley que define la política educativa para los niños que asisten a escuelas públicas en los Estados Unidos. Basada en la teoría económica, la ley definió precisos criterios cuantitativos para evaluar avances o retrocesos en el sistema. En este artículo resumimos los principales hallazgos presentados en la literatura académica norteamericana con respecto a las consecuencias esperadas y no esperadas de la ley. La experiencia norteamericana muestra que vincular los resultados de pruebas estandarizadas a penalidades para profesores y escuelas es una estrategia insuficiente para motivar cambios positivos en el sistema educativo.
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