I guess Harvard hates America

Why should this policy be different from any other?

President George W. Bush's signature No Child Left Behind education policy is failing to close racial achievement gaps and will miss its goals by 2014 according to recent trends, a Harvard study said on Wednesday.

It said the policy has had no significant impact on improving reading and math achievement since it was introduced in 2001, contradicting White House claims and potentially adding to concerns over America's academic competitiveness.

Bush's No Child Left Behind Act was meant to introduce national standards to an education system where only two-thirds of teenagers graduate from high school, a proportion that slides to 50 percent for blacks and Hispanics.

The study released by Harvard University's Civil Rights Project said national average of achievement by U.S. students has been flat in reading since 2001 and the growth rate in math has remained the same as before the policy was introduced.

Of course, this isn't news in the education community, where

The National Education Association (NEA), joined by local school districts in Michigan, Texas, and Vermont and by ten NEA affiliated state teachers associations (and the state of Connecticut), has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education (ED), challenging the enforcement of the No Child Left Behind Act's (NCLB) accountability standards.

According to the suit, the gap between the spending authorized by the law and the actual amount that goes to the states has been growing since NCLB was passed. Further, a number of calculations by the states show that even the authorized amounts would not be enough to provide the tutoring and greater school time that low-achieving students would minimally need to reach the bar.

Just another failure for the pile. The Bush administration has ruined everything it has touched.