Bush is a great believer in accountability in schools. How does he
assess accountability? By making schools give their students
standardized tests and telling them that if their students don't show
improvement, the school will loose funding. It's very important for
the schools that their students show improvement in these tests so the
inevitable result of "No child left behind" is rote memorization of
facts...

It's not "inevitable" -- but it might be a side benefit. It would be nice
if at least *some* of our students knew a few of the important dates in
history, or memorized a soliloquy.

"No child left behind" isn't perfect, but it's the first program in my
lifetime that holds out any hope for fixing the utterly broken inner city
schools -- which is what the program is really targeted at.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
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