Sec. of Education Margaret Spellings defends the Bush administration’s “No Child Left Behind” Act (NCLB) because, she says, it helps with accountability. It’s all about testing to make sure education takes, don’t you know.
Unless the test might show that Spellings and Bush haven’t done what they promised to do. Then the tests are off.
Bug Girl has the story: The U.S. has pulled out of the international testing for math and science, claiming budget restrictions. Surely the Bush administration did not fail to budget for their big test showing. Is that the real reason? Or do they fear that the test comparisons will show that NCLB has not worked?
Good discussion in the comments, too, about sequencing of math and science courses.
Posted by Ed Darrell 
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