This explains 99 percent of the NCLB backlash *

Michael J. Petrilli

8.11.2008

"Uptick in 'No Child' failures largely due to suburban schools"

* As well as the thinking behind last year's aborted attempt to rewrite the law.

President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, executive editor of Education Next, editor in chief of the…