Schools worldwide are facing the pressure of the newly imposed Federal law—leaving several institutions below the passing line.

In Illinois, more than half of its public schools and highly reputable education institutions failed to meet the examination targets for the year; creating confusion among spectators if the current education standards are appropriate.

Of its 879 school districts, high schools ranked worst. Almost 90 percent (9/10) of high school institutions passed but did not make distinguished outputs on the math and reading tests; which makes them risky under Federal government sanctions.

Results showed an undesirable and pressured performance. Of all 3000 schools testing for 2010 for eight graders, only 24 % scored in the advance levels; the rest failed and some were on the borderline.

Over the state, 44 % of elementary and middle schools did not pass above the new standards. Comments from educators were negative; saying that it was bound to happen because they could not force out children to score higher in every year until 2014.

According to the study made by Consortium on Chicago School Research, students which meets and do not exceed the given standards on the education program during the 8th grade will hardly get a score of 20 on the ACT entrance exam for college as juniors.

The researchers commented that scores do not imply high achievement and for parents, it is not the appropriate level to get pressured when they want their child to go to college. Schools used ISAT passing rates rather lump passers from exceeders; which makes it difficult to tell which schools are excelling or just below the standards.

The expectation of the Federal government under the No Child Left Behind law is for schools to make their students math and reading proficient by 2014 and standards gets higher every year—which sadly, most teachers do not find very possible since its inception.