(Taken from Wikipedia:)
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-110), commonly known as NCLB, is a United States federal law signed on January 8, 2002 that reauthorizes a number of federal programs aiming to improve the performance of U.S. primary and secondary schools by increasing the standards of accountability for states, school districts and schools, as well as providing parents more flexibility in choosing which schools their children will attend. Additionally, it promotes an increased focus on reading and re-authorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). NCLB is the latest federal legislation (another was Goals 2000) which enacts the theories of standards-based education reform, formerly known as outcome-based education which is based on the belief that high expectations and setting of goals will result in success for all students. The act also requires that the schools distribute the name, home phone number and address of every student enrolled to military recruiters.
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The last statement seriously bothers me: what in the world does NCLB have to do with military recruitment? Maybe because Bush knew all along that he would wage a war in the Middle East that will last for decades. Any thoughts?
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One familiar interpretation is that Bush and his criminal gang are just utterly ruthless about getting ever more power into their hands. They're trying to control every aspect of public education (while underfunding it to death) and many other things. It's total intrusion into our lives, unless you're superrich or a corporation, and looks like the classic model of fascism. That they're building up the military fits the core neo-con approach, of course.
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