Ravitch lays it out

I don't want to over-post on Diane Ravitch, but her editorial in yesterday's Wall Street Journal lays out the problems with NCLB quite well:

In short, accountability turned into a nightmare for American schools, producing graduates who were drilled regularly on the basic skills but were often ignorant about almost everything else. Colleges continued to complain about the poor preparation of entering students, who not only had meager knowledge of the world but still required remediation in basic skills. This was not my vision of good education.