Data about particular pupils can be accessed easily for sharing with external support agencies including the police and social services. (qaeducation.co.uk)
To begin with, for all its faults, No Child Left Behind had at least one redeeming characteristic: it required state and local education agencies to report on the progress of particular pupil groups that heretofore had been essentially ignored — at least from the standpoint of academic achievement. (k-12daily.org)