Thanks to my brother-in-law for calling my attention to the July 25th Wall Street Journal article by Charles Murray on their opinion page entitled "Acid Tests." Murray would like for the No Child Left Behind Act to support "school choice," but his investigation shows the testing is of no use. Furthermore when looking at the "Texas Miracle" in education, he showed that even that was totally a deception. The method of reporting the Miracle was designed to make it look as though there was improvement in state scores when actual analysis of the scores showed that they had remained the same as always. In otherwords, it was an intentional deception on the public. Or you could just say what we've seen in this president and his administration. He lied.

That's the point of view of a Republican in a conservative newspaper. Some of them are beginning to wake up.

I am unable to provide a link because I am not a subscriber, but I've read the article clipped from the paper. Most of the lengthly article talks about the way the statistics were missused in order to project the image that the party wanted. They skillfully made no misstatements, rather, they put the non-mathematician public in a position to totally misunderstand the facts. I guess we always assumed something was fishy, but now it's been shown in the Wall Street Journal.