This is about as bogus a piece of legislation as our beloved president has ever conceived. He got his feet wet on this one when he was the Gov of Texas. His efforts pioneered testing in TExas schools. The result has been lawsuits, wrangling over funding and control of the education system, teachers who have to spend 70% of their time teaching to a set of test based training materials that don't teach subject matter but teach test taking skills and strategies. THe kids aren't learning the basics, the teachers are frustrated and the public school system is in chaos.

ALl this from a guy who, by all reports, couldn't have successfully managed to pass the tests and graduate under the system he put in place.