Nearly a decade after No Child Left Behind promised to remake the American educational system, there remain troubling--and often dismal--trends about precisely what graduating seniors are learning. Today, 27 percent of students drop out of high school before they earn a diploma...Indeed, studies show that 40 percent of students who arrive on community college campuses need some sort of remedial education. What's more, those numbers are routinely higher than the public statistics suggest, says Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia.