USA Today offers an editorial and rebuttal on NCLB.  The editorial page writers say that Democrats hate NCLB because unions hate NCLB.  Neither the part about Democrats nor the part about unions is true, but if some of our members hate NCLB they are not alone according to this new poll.

Now, that Alfie Kohn, he hates NCLB. Kohn offers the rebuttal, and it is quite an anti-NCLB screed.  Kohn claims that NCLB was created by the Bush Administration and the Heritage Foundation. He ignores the role of Senator Kennedy and Representative Miller, not to mention the Education Trust. And this time around, everyone and their mother has a set of recommendations for the reauthorization of NCLB so everyone will get to take credit (or more likely, blame) for NCLB version 2.0.

(And can I just complain about the graphic, knowing that USA Today is all about the graphics? It is not really truthful to say that CA and NY have the most schools in improvement without also saying that they have the most schools. Would it have been that much harder to calculate a percentage?)