19 Quotes by Jack Jennings

Both the President and Congress moved in exactly the wrong direction last year by approving a cut in education, and this year aggravated the situation by approving another cut just as the demands of the law were becoming greater.

Currently the country is putting high hopes on reforming education through testing. One result is that it's putting enormous strain on the testing industry. There are only six major (testing) companies, and they can only expand so fast. That's why you're seeing all these mistakes.

Despite what the (Bush) administration was claiming, this is an indication that No Child Left Behind may not have made much of a difference because these are the same results we saw before the law was in effect.

The bottom line is we should take pleasure in the fact American kids are doing better in math. Math achievement is going up in the United States in the long term. It is not, however, where kids in the United States ought to be.

The big question is will the Bush administration be able to defuse this political opposition.

They're trying incremental approaches - bringing in coaches, rethinking use of time, changing curriculum, retraining teachers.

They're trying incremental approaches -- bringing in coaches, rethinking use of time, changing curriculum, retraining teachers.

It's a race against time over whether the Bush administration will be able to administer the act more sensibly so that people do not get so angry that the act will be overthrown by court or rewritten or substantially amended by Congress.

In the abstract, it's a good idea that students know more about the Constitution. Civics has been squeezed out of the curriculum.