‘There is no joy in education these days’ - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post: "What is the status quo? Is it the fact that No Child Left Behind, the law proposed by president George W. Bush immediately after he took office and then passed in 2001 by Congress with a 90 percent favorable vote, set us down an impossible path to the land of Lake Wobegon where every child will be “above average?”
This law was rooted in Texas where statewide reforms and increased standardized testing led to the so-called “Texas Miracle” while Bush was governor.
However, as studies have since shown, what happened in Texas was more a “mirage” than “miracle.” In fact, the head of Rice University’s Center for Education said highly touted test results were similar to what Enron did when they overstated profits."
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