It's no secret that George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind policy was hardly a success. But when I read this article in the Washington Post, I just about spit my decaf coffee across the keyboard onto my computer screen:
According to the article, two-thirds of third- and fourth-graders in Virginia and Maryland rank at the "below proficient" level in their reading skills. And it's not like "proficient" is all that great because to get schools to be in compliance with NCLB over the few last years, many schools lowered the test scores needed for students to achieve a rating of "proficient" on the standardized tests for both reading and math so schools wouldn't lose their funding the keep teaching our kids.
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