AFT NCLBlog: Pres. Bush Invented NAEP

From yesterday's Rose Garden remarks:

"Last month, we learned that 4th graders earned the highest math and reading scores in the history of our Nation's Report Card -- and that's good news. I'm able to report that because we actually measure now in the schools."

Two points: First, scores are increasing at a slower rate since NCLB passed. Second, uh, NAEP, or "our Nation's Report Card," has been "measuring...in the schools" since the late 1960s.