“Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.”
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On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.
The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.
Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
