In early 2000, then-candidate George W. Bush declared that he would make education reform and school accountability a focus of his presidency. In a moment for the annals of American rhetoric, Bush asked an immortal question: “Is our children learning?” The answer, as it happened, was yes. The U.S. was in the midst of a decades-long rise in educational achievement across a range of subjects, which would continue through the Bush administration and for years beyond. As he later told a group of schoolchildren in New York, “Childrens do learn, when standards are high and results are measured.”
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