Children left behind

Doesn't seem that Bush's education legacy will be all that great, either:

Despite a new federal educational testing law championed by the Bush administration, scores among fourth and eighth graders failed to show any improvements in reading, and showed only slow gains in math nationally during the past two years, according to a study released today.

Most troubling for educators are the sluggish reading skills among middle school students, which have remained flat for 13 years, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which has been testing students for three decades and bills itself as the "nation's report card."

One administrator points out the program has increased costs to schools with little return in the way of test results. Sounds like a good Republican program to me.