Diane Ravitch Op/Ed on NCLB in NYT

Another NYT op/ed, this time by former Asst. EdSec Diane Ravitch. Argues that NCLB should be vastly overhauled, with the federal government setting standards, and the states deciding how those should be taught. She also mentions the discrepancy between state scores and NAEP.

DESPITE the rosy claims of the Bush administration, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 is fundamentally flawed. The latest national tests, released last week, show that academic gains since 2003 have been modest, less even than those posted in the years before the law was put in place. In eighth-grade reading, there have been no gains at all since 1998.