This from the not-always-reliable Wikipedia site. I'd heard about the name's similarity to the CDF motto before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind#Name The name "No Child Left Behind" is unusual, and evokes the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, which talks about life during the end times, a fate which parents would not want to let their children face. Its most likely origin is the motto of the liberal advocacy group The Children's Defense Fund, "Leave No Child Behind," but which may also stem from Atticus Finch's speech in To Kill a Mockingbird, in which he chastises the government for working so hard to not let one child be left behind the other, more advanced children. Robert Paul Reed College ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html