The No Child Left Behind hard-liners are striking back at President Obama’s call to move beyond the goal of getting 100 percent of American students to “proficiency” by 2014, and working instead to get most students “college and career-ready” by the time they graduate. Sandy Kress complains that “scrapping that goal and replacing it with a much tougher and higher goal with no challenging annual markers and deadlines for its achievement is real fraud.” Margaret Spellings told the Washington Post last month that “It’s one of the holy grails, as far as I’m concerned. If you don’t have a real deadline, you’ve essentially gutted accountability.”...Read it here.
