Save School Standards

Kudos to the Washington Post for this forceful, spot-on editorial:

THE DEBATE on No Child Left Behind  begins in earnest this week, and the outcome will be determined by one fundamental question: Does this country want to make schools better -- or just make schools look better? If Congress is true to the noble idea that all children, no matter their races, family incomes or circumstances, can learn to  read and do math, it must reject suggestions that make a charade of standards  and accountability.

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Save School Standards
Congress should resist attempts to water down the No Child Left Behind law.
Washington Post editorial, Monday, September 10, 2007; A14

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/09/AR2007090901404.html

THE DEBATE on No Child Left Behind begins in earnest this week, and the outcome will be determined by one fundamental question: Does this country want to make schools better -- or just make schools look better? If Congress is true to the noble idea that all children, no matter their races, family incomes or circumstances, can learn to read and do math, it must reject suggestions that make a charade of standards and accountability.