
It looks like 27% of American schools are not making it, as far as NCLB regs.
If their respective states don't make the tests easier soon, they could be sanctioned.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
~Noam Chomsky