No Child Left Behind’s test-based policies failed. Will Congress keep them anyway?

CAT Tracks Editor's Note:

Over a decade of high-stakes testing under NCLB and RTTT has not made a dent in the achievement gap.

In fact...

"Students from low-income families are now a majority in U.S. public schools."

...and as everyone with common sense knows, poverty is the real cause of the achievement gap, not the alleged "bigotry of soft expectations".

Since office-holders can't or won't tackle the real problems, the politicians of both parties keep tinkering at the edges of the testing behemoth created by Dubya and escalated by Barry...

...doing the same thing over and over and expecting/promising different results.

However...