Like many other educators,Chris Whittle,the controversial chief executive of Edison Schools,believes the No Child Left Behind law is heading for a "train wreck." The law mandates that all U.S.schoolchildren must meet state proficiency standards in math and reading by 2014.During an interview held in Edison's New York offices,Whittle told this reviewer that as the law's performance bar is raised,"thousands of schools,with 15 million students," will fail to make the grade.
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