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The Wrong Kind of Bipartisanship?

by Frederick M. Hess - November 10, 2006

With the Democrats having just recaptured both chambers of Congress after a season of nasty and partisan campaigns, the media is primed for happy stories of post-election comity. NCLB will likely serve as exhibit A, just as it did when it first passed with bipartisan support in 2001. With the law�s champions, right and left, indicating that they are eager to move full speed ahead in the coming year, this well-intentioned law may be reauthorized without the hard scrubbing it needs.

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Frederick Hess American Enterprise Institute E-mail Author FREDERICK M. HESS is director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and co-author of No Child Left Behind: A Primer (Peter Lang, 2006).

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