President Obama says he wants to overhaul the ‘No Child Left Behind’ law, by changing the system away from the pass/fail mark for schools to a more graded process. He is also pushing changes to the testing policy by which schools are judged. Are these good ideas? What’s encouraging and what’s discouraging about the Obama agenda? Will he really push to have bad teachers fired? And why is Obama’s decision to let the DC vouchers program expire a sign that he’s not committed to doing what’s necessary to give every kid the best possible education? We ask Dr. Jay Greene, professor of education reform at the University of Arkansas and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
