No joke. Tom Horne equates the Bush Administration's Department of Education and No Child Left Behind with Soviet Russia. The day the world turned upside down? Not exactly, just as good an example as one could ask for of public educations' established constituencies' desperate need to kill this bill in re-athorization - and the role of propaganda in its campaign. With Senator Clinton accusing Bush of using K-12 as a chance to abuse the taxpayer with runaway, Halliburton-style capitalism, and Republican Horne seeing echoes of Leninism - NCLB must be doing something right.   more »