President Bush’s No Child Left Behind act has been praised for making public schools more accountable for the quality of education they provide, but there’s no question that the act’s renewed focus on the basic building blocks of education has put the squeeze on subjects that aren’t reading or math-related. Even though NCLB designates the arts as one of five core learning areas, “schools are so concerned with making the grade in math and reading that they’ll pull resources away from the arts, physical education and foreign languages to make it happen.”