The lean, taut eleven-year-old Cyril (Thomas Doret) escapes from a state center in search of his father, who abandoned him a month earlier and leftno forwarding address.
No phone, noaddress book, no music: It was as though I'd left the modern world behind at Sunan airport and stepped back in time to a seemingly prehistoric analog era.
No Child Left Behind was trying to address a real problem: there really were (and are) schools and teachers who were failing to educate the children entrusted to them.
This is why, in my State of the Union address this year, I said that Congress should reform the No Child Left Behind law based on the principles that have guided Race to the Top.