Rotherham, Bloomberg & Jeb Bush on NCLB

Andrew Rotherham:

Sunday's WaPo op-ed by Florida Governor and first brother Jeb Bush and New York Mayor and Michael Bloomberg is sort of mystifying the Eduwonk. Sure, they are big names, but the op-ed is vapid. It would be like some big name foreign policy type penning an op-ed saying that the problem in the Middle East is that people just don't seem to get along with each other. Would the WaPo publish that?

Anyway, Bush and Bloomberg lay out four big think reforms for No Child Left Behind. If this is what passes for big think in the Republican Party right now then Democrats have no excuses for not eating the Rs lunch on this issue in 2008. Bush and Bloomberg want to:

• Make standards meaningful by making the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) the default standards;
• Encourage student gains;
• Recognize degrees of progress; and
• Reward and retain high-quality teachers.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 15, 2006 6:02 AM
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