Another round of school reform: Is is all just "puffery"?

"Even if George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind program had been phenomenally successful (it wasn't), many thousands of children would have been left behind," writes Washington Post economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson. 

Now the Obama administration is pushing a new round of school reform — and Samuelson isn't impressed.

"Since the 1960s, waves of 'school reform' haven't produced meaningful achievement gains," he notes. "Few subjects inspire more intellectual dishonesty and political puffery than 'school reform.'"