There is a zero percent chance that we will ever reach a 100 percent target. --Dr. Robert Linn, former President of the American Education Research Association
The quote above the
Washington Post in 2007, and the chart above that is from a Massachusetts study in 2005 (
mass_partnersAYP.p65). But as we now know, the enemies of public education had this information when they stitched together the NCLB monster in 2001, as did friendlier though more delusional Dems like Kennedy, who was still as much in denial in 2007 as his brother, Bobby, was in the 1960s when promoting something new