Q. I am doing an exploratory paper on the No Child Left Behind act, and I am trying to find useful information regarding how it affects students,

There appears to be plenty of material out there.  This page has links to our top Education databases:  http://libguides.unomaha.edu/az.php  I did searches in the first few using "no child left behind" in one search box and "results" or "effects" in another and came up with hundreds of results.