What was supposed to be the one actual working plan implmented by Preznit C-Plus Augustus, No Child Left Behind, is just like everything else he's done in his life: a miserable failure.
The first nationwide test to permit an appraisal of President Bush's signature education law rendered mixed results on Wednesday, with even some supporters of the law expressing disappointment.
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"The absence of really bad news isn't the same as good news, and if you're concerned about education and closing achievement gaps, there's simply not enough good news in these national results," said Ross Wiener, policy director of the Education Trust, a group that seeks to bring attention to the needs of poor and minority students and has consistently supported the federal law.
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"We have more non-native speakers, there are lots of so-called at-risk, hard-to-educate students, and in spite of that, steady progress is being made," she said. "We're on the right track with No Child Left Behind."
Ah, blame a shitty program which de-emphasizes actual learing and emphasizes "teaching to the test" and it's shittier results on immigrants. Yeah, there's a unique strategery.
So, let me see if I understand this: we're handing a massive amount of federal debt, a trashed economy and world-wide reputation as a nation of self-centered assholes off to a bunch of functionally illiterate children who will learn the earth was created in seven days 6,000 years ago as part of the 1600 Crew educational agenda?
Damn, I'm glad the children is our future. Is this a great country, or what?
