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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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Education Law in Dire Need of New Name

Ridicule of No Child Left Behind prompts search

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(Newser) – No Child Left Behind has become “the most negative brand in America,” says a congressman, and new Education Secretary Arne Duncan says it’s time for a new name for the law. Educators and jokesters alike are trying their hand at rebranding, the New York Times reports. Proposals range from the Quality Education for All Children Act to the Mental Asset Recovery Plan.

The Bush administration created its current name in 2001 as it proposed a number of changes to an act that was actually born in 1965. As President Bush’s popularity fell, the act was frequently lampooned. Now, a Clinton administration official is sponsoring an online contest to rebrand it. Entries include the Act to Help Children Read Gooder and the Could We Start Again Please Act.

President George W. Bush poses with students in Philadelphia, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009.
President George W. Bush poses with students in Philadelphia, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009.   (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
President George W. Bush marks the anniversary of his No Child Left Behind law during a visit with students, teachers, and national educators, Jan. 8, 2009.
President George W. Bush marks the anniversary of his No Child Left Behind law during a visit with students, teachers, and national educators, Jan. 8, 2009.   (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
President George W. Bush salutes as he and first lady Laura Bush step down from Air Force One, Jan. 8, 2009.
President George W. Bush salutes as he and first lady Laura Bush step down from Air Force One, Jan. 8, 2009.   (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Lula
Feb 23, 09 9:21 AM CST
The Smirk, sure left alot of children behind. Reply
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Beer_King
Feb 23, 09 10:28 AM CST
How about a novel idea and return education to the States where the constitution says it belongs and get the FEDERAL Education Department (with it's 125,000 bureaucrats and bloated budget) out of local and State education systems? Bush's mistake was to expand this swamp instead of draining and eliminating it all together. It is the single biggest waste of Federal tax dollars after the Commerce Department. The public school system is dead thanks to liberal idealogy. I can't imagine anyone I know sending their kids to that cesspool of liberal experimentation. GOD bless private schools and home schooling, the saving grace for America's future. Reply
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Caps
Feb 23, 09 12:33 PM CST
Beer-King, who in hell can afford private schools with no job. You are just way out in rght field. Reply
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bacimom
Feb 23, 09 2:34 PM CST
N9o he'll just home school so he can indoctrinate the poor child with nonsense and the religion of Rush Reply
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Beer_King
Feb 23, 09 5:06 PM CST
Parents who actually care about what thier kids learn to scrimp and save to pay for quality education just like I did to send my kid to a high quailty private cathloic school and I am not even catholic. If you losers want to send your kids to crappy failed public schools and spend your personal money on your Direct TV and other goodies, so be it, I believe in spending my resources for my kids. Shame on you to ridicule anyone who wants a better education for his/her kids. And I can think of a few million parents who home school who think you are flaming whack jobs for being critical of home schooling! And caps I have lived in four different states in ten years all in middle class areas and not a single neighbor of mine sent kids to public schools. Public schools in most urban states are for troubled, poor, minority and illegals. People with any resources at all know better and send thier kids to private or charter schools or they home school. No one who wants whats best for thier kids actually sends thier kids to public schools in most urban areas I know of. Public schools today are test grounds for future prisons. Excuse us for wanting what is best for our kids but sending them to a public school today is a like a future death sentence waiting to be pronounced. . Reply
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