She admired its recommended reforms as they seemed reasonable, visionary and attainable. She contrasts ANAR with NCLB by saying that ANAR was a report while NCLB was a federal law; failure to comply with it would have serious consequences. ANAR focused on strengthening the curriculum while NCLB focused on measuring success based off standardized test scores. ANAR had a vision of good education as the foundation while NCLB only envisioned rising scores. ANAR wanted to produce educated citizens and impart knowledge by improving the quality of test books, spending more time on homework’s, etc. while NCLB only produced data and gave no importance to