Thursday, January 31, 2008

Even Flaming Leftie Garrison Keillor Supports NCLB

From Joanne (see blogroll), who links from Salon:

In a fiery Salon column, Garrison Keillor tells Democrats to stop bashing No Child Left Behind and Reading First. Teaching kids to read well is a lot more important than Bush bashing.

“Nice, caring, sharing people” — not “Republican oligarchs in top hats and spats” — are running the schools, Keillor writes. The failure to teach low-income students to read competently is their failure.


Hear hear, amen, right on.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think that the first school that can come up with a constitutional justification for NCLB should be rewarded with a huge grant. No need to worry, though -- it's not there.

Dan

Darren said...

Sadly, Dan, the libertarian argument doesn't fly. NCLB is at least as constitutional as any other law coming out of Congress. The fact that you and I don't necessarily agree with these laws doesn't change the reality on the ground.

I tolerate NCLB as an alternative to federal money with *no* accountability, although in an ideal situation there'd be no federal involvement at all.