Echo Chamber: The National Education Association's Campaign Against NCLB; the NEA's response

1) The Education Sector recently released a report (authored by the prolific Joe Williams) called: Echo Chamber: The National Education Association's Campaign Against NCLB.  You can read it at: http://www.educationsector.org/analysis/analysis_show.htm?doc_id=382069  Here's the summary:

The National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers union, opposes the federal No Child Left Behind Act, the first version of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act that the powerful union has not backed. The NEA has launched a high-profile legal and political battle against NCLB. It has also carried out another, less visible campaign against the law, pouring money into organizations that echo the union's criticisms of NCLB but often leaving the public unaware of the organizations' financial ties to the union.

2) The NEA -- SURPRISE! -- denies opposing NCLB, saying it "is fundamentally flawed and major changes need to happen. And nobody is more qualified to lead that effort than those who are on the front lines every day—the 2.8 million members of NEA."  What a crock!  To read the NEA's rebuttal of this report ("EIGHT MYTHS AND FACTS ABOUT NEA AND ITS WORK TO IMPROVE NCLB"), including ridiculous attacks on The Education Sector and Joe Williams, see: http://thisweekineducation.blogspot.com/2006/07/week-in-review-july-10-17.html