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No Ed-Policy Wonk Left Behind

By W. James Antle, III on 1.10.07 @ 1:02AM

John: While at The American Conservative, I wrote a piece on the fourth anniversary of No Child Left Behind (not this piece on the grassroots revolt). I was struck at how overwhelmingly education policy analysts from the left to the right, except for dissenters at Heritage and Cato, were for NCLB despite the opposition from so many parents, teachers, and bureaucrats. It became clear to me the issue wasn’t the details of NCLB but the fact that so many elements of the legislation reflected an ed-policy wonks’ wish list. Petrelli was a source for the story.

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W. James Antle, III, author of the new book Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?, is editor of the Daily Caller News Foundation and a senior editor of The American Spectator. You can follow him on Twitter @jimantle.

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