If I had a dollar for every press release I received from an education advocacy organization expressing angst over the delay in reauthorizing the Elementary Secondary Education Act—known to most as No Child Left Behind (NCLB)—I could most definitely buy the new iPhone 4s I’ve been stalling on.
Educators have cried for years to fix the broken federal mandate signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002. Their criticisms of the law’s emphasis on standardized testing, unfunded mandates, and harsh sanctions are legitimate and universal.