Editorial Page Round-up: Reauthorization Wish List

A round-up of editorial pages over the past few days, ranging from qualified support to outright hatin’:
Dallas Morning News - “No Retreat from No Child”: We’ve always loved the law, we want no give-backs on strict accountability, but hey, growth models might be a good idea.
Rocky Mountain News — “‘No Child’ in Need of an Overhaul”:  We’ve [...]

Bush Cronies Profited While They Halliburton-ized Public Schools

You might remember that back in 2005, Congress asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate whether the Department of Education pushed schools to buy books from certain publishers with close ties to Bush.
And then in April of this year, Congress held an investigation into the $6 billion Reading First program, Bush’s centerpiece of NCLB, and the [...]

It’s All in How You Ask

Education in Texas takes a poke at the ETS and Hoover surveys that claim to show oh-so-much public suport for NCLB, and proposes a better survey question for the next round:
As you know, the No Child Left Behind Act represents the largest federal intrusion onto states’ rights in the history of the United States, is most likely unconstituional, [...]

We Were Doing Okay till YOU Showed Up

New research shows that states were doing just fine, thank you very much, in raising student test scores before NCLB joined the party.
The study, published in Education Researcher, tracked progress in both state and federal test scores in 12 diverse states and found that, with the exception of fourth-graders’ math scores, yearly gains in reading and math scores [...]

Cafferty File: Leave It!

Yesterday, Jack Cafferty asked CNN viewers the blunt question, “Should No Child Left Behind be left behind?”
The Situation Room blog posted four responses — but not one was positive, or even fair-to-middling. Nope, they were all pretty much along these lines:
“Get rid of No child Left Behind now. It’s just a gimmick. The solutions are easy. [...]