The Bush "no child left behind" initiative gets a lot of criticism. One of the main points I have heard is that it hasn't "closed the gap" between average score of whites and blacks (and Mexicans). There have been some politically incorrect books published that point out that the gap is due to inherent IQ, and so can't be closed. As I recall, the book "The Bell Curve" pointed this out, and warned that public policy must account for it. Liberals don't accept that some group of people could have a higher average IQ than another group despite all of the data which shows that. (It is interesting to me that white people have no problem with the fact that Northeast Asians and Central Europeans have higher average IQ's than whites.) Regarding "no child left behind," it appears to me that raising the average scores of black students, as it has done, is a good thing. And, it is not bad that it also raised the average scores of whites. A better educated populace is good for all of us.