Early in the 21st Century, noted education experts Ted Kennedy and George W. Bush got together to push through Congress the bipartisan No Child Left Behind act mandating that 100% of American public school students be above average by last year.
As luck would have it, that didn’t actually happen.
But now Obama has just signed a new bipartisan bill to replace No Child Left Behind, the even more implausibly entitled Every Student Succeeds act.
But don’t say that nobody never learns nothing. While Every Student Succeeds sounds like it’s bound to fail, this time Congress didn’t mandate that students actually do much of anything; so, looked at from the right perspective, Every Student Succeeds can’t miss.
When I saw the thread title with "Every Student Succeeds" as the name of the new law, I thought it was a sarcastic description of another dreamy eyed attempt to achieve the Lake Woebegone like result of "all the children are above average" But now I see that's the actual name. Wow, reality keeps chipping away at satire.