Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: An "astonishing number..."

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: An "astonishing number...":

An "astonishing number..."

by Mike Klonsky

Remember last spring when Arne Duncan was pushing for reauthorization of NCLB, heclaimed that 82 percent of public schools were "failing"? Three days later, President Obama repeated Duncan's foolish claim in a speech at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Va. “Four out of five schools will be labeled as failing,” Obama said , in March. “That’s an astonishing number.”

Astonishing indeed. The only thing "failing" was NCLB itself.

As Duncan himself admitted yesterday while brushing aside his horrible, demoralizing