Leaving plenty of children behind.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief Article

I assume that George W. Bush, like most members of his administration, is a faithful reader of the conservative Washington Times. If so, I hope his modest curiosity managed to get him to page 12 of the August 30 edition, so that he could see what has happened to his No Child Left Behind program. There he would have found this headline: "Twelve million languish in failing public schools, report says." The accompanying article cites this conclusion from the Education Commission of the States: At least one-quarter of the nation's public schools fail to meet "adequate yearly progress" standards under the No Child Left Behind act...