Wrong Said Fred

Long-time actor, occasional politician, and allegedly viable presidential candidate Fred Thompson has this to say about NCLB (via HuffPost):

"No Child Left Behind _ good concept, I'm all for testing _ but it seems like now some of these states are teaching to the test and kind of making it so that everybody does well on the test _ you can't really tell that everybody's doing that well. And it's not objective" Thompson said. Instead, he said the federal government should be providing block grants as long as states set up objective testing programs. He said his message to states would be, "We expect you to get objective testing done and publicize those tests for the local parents and for the local citizens and suffer the political ramifications locally if things don't work out right."

Thompson thus joins Bill Richardson among the ranks of grasping candidates who chose this week to not even try to be coherent, meaningful, or useful in discussing the education law.