... is one of those titles that is hard to argue against. I mean who but an ogre would want to leave a single little innocent behind? Even Standardized Testing sounds good on the surface as some sort of objective measure of comparison, etc. That it was an easy sale is best reflected by the congressional voting on the House Bill:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2001-145

as well as the Senate bill:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=s2001-192

This, being a very early piece of legislation following the bitter 2000 election, is likely best perceived as an olive branch for bipartisanship offered. Of course, it was shortsighted, and now that the unintended results are exposed, the crying game begins. From day one it was doomed to fall into the political pit it now finds itself. Less big government is always better than more big government. And this would have been even before learning that black children were right brained more than left brained. Who knew?