New NAEP

I don’t love the horse-race NAEP result stuff that always happens when the scores are released, but the results today do have political implications for the No Child debate. All your data here. Punchline: Something in the data for everyone, No Child friends and foes, but this is hardly the data that No Child critics need to counter the emerging consensus that the law, while not perfect, is the worst option except for all the others….

Update: Even Bruce Fuller agrees the data are not what No Child opponents wanted…