Jay Mathews weighs in with an even-handed column debunking ten myths about NCLB. He gets it pretty much right, managing in the process to tweak both the law's critics and supporters. The one thing we'd take issue with is his expectation that lawmakers will "adjust" the "goal of 100 percent student proficiency in reading and math by 2014." The supposedly pie-in-the-sky proficiency targets of NCLB are the one thing that seems to have forced states and districts to face up to their shortcomings.
"No Child Left Behind Act: Facts and fiction," by Jay Mathews, Washington Post, November 11, 2003
