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In education policy, Congress and President Obama's administration continue to seek an unrealizable national whip that will somehow transform American schools for the better. These efforts ignore both evidence and common sense.

"The attitude was if we did good teaching and we were passionate and energetic, kids would learn and that would be enough," said Ms. Rief, who is 67. No more. Last year, the No Child Left Behind law, which calls for 100 percent proficiency by 2014, caught up with Oyster River. Under the law's mandates for adequate yearly progress toward that goal, the school was one of 326 public schools in New Hampshire - 69 percent of the total - deemed to be failing.