We are on the Yangtze, one of the last ships to move through China’s Three Gorges Dam Project before its completion. This dam, 1.2 miles across and 600 feet high, will create a reservoir 360 miles long and raise the water level by 175 meters. It already has flooded 113 cities, 140 towns, 1,352 villages, 657 factories, and 1,300 archeological sites. The great dam, built on a seismic fault, is causing 1.3 million people to relocate. In addition, critics contend it will dump so much silt into the reservoir that in a few years, the dam will lose the capacity to control floods. Our nation’s No Child Left Behind Act is similarly producing unintended negative consequences. Linda Hammond-Darling (2004) writes that despite the noble intentions