The Washington Post’s Maria Glod reports on Education Secretary Margaret Spellings appearance at the Aspen Institute yesterday, where she continued fighting the largely forgotten fight for No Child Left Behind. Spellings said the core principle of NCLB is beyond reproach: testing to ensure that kids from all states and school districts can handle the reading and math their grade level requires. But Spellings admitted that NCLB was a pet project of Bush’s — and is being largely ignored by both Congress and the presidential candidates.

One can certainly point out the many flaws of NCLB, but at least it is an education policy one can implement, revise, or abolish. There is currently no alternative national vision, making the NCLB impasse confusing for bureaucrats, teachers, students — and a political thicket not worth touching for politicians.-MB

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