Read the article. Or isn't literacy a conservative value?
Kids' scores up--gee, how awful. How completely fascist. Let's spend more money on farm subsidies rather than money on education. Dern kids and their "books"!
We’re settling for less with this approach to education, and claiming a great victory.
VOUCHERS are the answer.
This is way too expensive an expansion of government power for the results. Government education sucks. Just because Bush’s signature is on it doesn’t make it any better.
Are the literacy test all the same nation wide? Or, do the states make up the tests and then teach to the tests?
The article is very vague. It says readins scores are up but posts no data. Are they up 1% or 10%?
No Child Left Behind was another one of Bush's neo-liberal attempts at "doing something".
Have you seen writing samples of the typical teenager/young adult these days? We're raising a generation of retards.
Yes, I agree with you. The bottom line is that this has measurable tests to track progress. Not ideal, but its better than before which was basically not holding teacher unions accountable for results.