The Whattaya-Think-of-NCLB? Tour, Darwin at the Pulpit, and Psyche Assessments

Teacher Magazine ’s take on education news from around the Web, Feb. 9-15.

You can now count Harvard University, which knows a thing or two about education, among those criticizing NCLB. Its Civil Rights Project recently put together a study concluding that President Bush’s education plan has, indeed, left some children behind . How, exactly? Well, it has something to do with—surprise, surprise—politics. Seems that with 49 states either amending the law or being granted waivers to NCLB provisions, “no two states are now subject to the same requirements,” says Gail Sunderman, the study’s lead author. And those benefiting most from the political maneuvering are—you...