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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Education Secretary Campaigns for “No Child Left Behind”


Margaret Spellings is not running for office — at least, not yet. But in the waning days of the Bush presidency, she is running one last campaign…. She had been on the road for months, promoting President Bush’s beleaguered education initiative, No Child Left Behind, delivering one sales pitch after another. (New York Times, Thursday)

Making schools accountable to the feds isn't progress.

FEE Timely Classic
The Failure of American Public Education by John Hood