The awful Margaret Spellings, Bush’s commissar of child indoctrination, was featured this morning in an NPR story on Utah. She threatens the state for wanting to get out from under the Republicans’ No Child Left Behind. The Utah legislature wants to turn down some federal bribes to avoid the detailed controls that come with them. This is viciously inegalitarian, warns Madame Defarge, since the achievement gap is bigger in Utah then elsewhere. As No Child and many other programs envision, the gap can be closed by hindering the high achievers as well as helping the low. Thus, for example, the … Continue reading Ms. Spellings