Rahm Emanuel

And nobody seems to think this is worth worrying about.

Now, there are other reforms along the way.

Every place that has adopted the whole program, not just science and reading, the support for teachers and the support for students with standards of attachment, as I said, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee being the most

kind of comprehensive in adopting the Mississippi model, all seeing rapid increases in reading scores.

Democrats, getting back to the science of reading or the accountability, thought that leave no child behind under President Bush, they were teaching to the test rather than using the test as a measure of success or failure or improvement.

Not wrong, but the answer wasn't to abandon it, which is what we all did as a country.

The answer is how to find that sweet spot where, yes, you have a test, yes, you have a measure.

It's a reflection of whether we're making progress, but it doesn't become the only thing you're doing from an academic standpoint.

And we...

meaning the country, led by Democrats, walked away from standards and accountability.

And that is a mistake.

Now, this is going to get me in trouble, but I'm for it.

I'm not only for it as a parent, but I'm for it as a former mayor that had responsibility for the schools, which is why we saw our reading and math scores

Each year successfully.

No, I mean, I don't know about racist, but that the criticism is not wrong.

We had gotten to a point we overshot where the test was supposed to measure.

It became not the means it became the ends, which was we're going to teach to the test.

Yeah.

The remedy throw it all out was the mistake.

Don't measure anything.