No Child Left Behind Because All Of Them Are Equally Unimpressive

The Administration's revered [and only, up to Social Security attempt #1 and Katrina failure #s 1-6] domestic policy, the No Child Left Behind Act, which has fallen under intense scrutiny and even states' rebellions, has been granted the expected: unimpressive results.

The first nationwide test to permit an appraisal of President Bush's signature education law rendered mixed results on Wednesday, with even some supporters of the law expressing disappointment.

Math scores were up slightly but eighth-grade reading showed a decline, and there was only modest progress toward closing the achievement gap between white and minority students, which is one of the Bush administration's primary goals. In many categories, the results indicated, the gap remains as wide as it was in the early 1990's.

By some measures, students were making greater gains before the law was put into effect.

"The absence of really bad news isn't the same as good news, and if you're concerned about education and closing achievement gaps, there's simply not enough good news in these national results," said Ross Wiener, policy director of the Education Trust...

Now, Mr. Bush was, of course, delusional, saying that he was pleased with the results that show growth [either delusional or the easiest, and least effective, educator EVER], but surely Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is the voice of reason, with sure-footed analyses which highlight educational districts with useless teacher pay rates, district funding imbalances, and teacher to student ratios, which are among the most persistent inhibiters of learning:

She said the less robust increases and outright declines in some reading scores were understandable in part, because the nations schools are assimilating huge numbers of immigrants.

"We have more non-native speakers, there are lots of so-called at-risk, hard-to-educate students, and in spite of that, steady progress is being made," she said. "We're on the right track with No Child Left Behind."

Whoa-

So all of a sudden the flagship of the President's domestic policy, the education policy that he ran on, has become a propaganda for his anti-immigration cronies. Despite the Education Department's illegal propaganda activities in support of No Child, the real secret is that it's always been a failure, and now, incredibly, even the failure can be recycled into propaganda for an anti-immigrant agenda! It's not our fault for not paying the teachers! It's the damn unMurricans' faults! It's Mexico's fault, Canada's! All those damn unMurrican speakers!