Arne Duncan, NCLB, & 82% of U.S. Schools Get an F

I receive an email newswire from The Center for Education Reform. Last week (March 15th, 2011) the one I received had an article in which it claims the Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, said 82% of US schools are on track to be failing under current No Child Left Behind (NCLB) guidlines. I haven't had to play the NCLB game in awhile, but I remember when I first saw that legislative rubbish from the administration of George W. Bush. I thought there is no way anyone with any statistical training had a look at  this mess. The requirement for continuous annual improvement (or some such jargon) ensures that eventually every school will regress toward the mean - and eventually fail. Hopefully someday somebody will realize a schools success should not be measured by how much kids improve on a standardized test from year to year, but on how motivated the kids have become to improve their lives through education and how schools are doing at facilitating and directing that motivation.