Student Scores Stagnate: No Country Left Behind? (Education - Change.org):
"We demanded No Child Left Behind, but now it's the whole country may miss out. American children are not be getting any smarter or any dumber, explained Arne Duncan last week, fearing stagnation and complacency would not be good enough for the U.S. to compete globally. Numbers cited by Duncan last week found that in science, the United States is falling behind Canada, Japan and the Czech Republic. Duncan explained 'I think as a real economic imperative we have to educate our way to a better economy.'"
"We demanded No Child Left Behind, but now it's the whole country may miss out. American children are not be getting any smarter or any dumber, explained Arne Duncan last week, fearing stagnation and complacency would not be good enough for the U.S. to compete globally. Numbers cited by Duncan last week found that in science, the United States is falling behind Canada, Japan and the Czech Republic. Duncan explained 'I think as a real economic imperative we have to educate our way to a better economy.'"