Usefulness of Education Research Questioned

Hello all its Juan Luis. According to the "Usefulness of Education Research questioned" article, I agree with my classmates when they say that education cant be taken over the government and politicians, those people dont even know what is happening in the schools. The department of education needs people that are true educators and have the desire and motivation to work with all the situations that happen. As for the law of No Child Left Behind I sincerely think it simply holds back the schools and students to keep succeeding, its great that it wants everyone to be at a same level of knowledge and all that, but we are not robots, we are human beings, and we learn in different ways, some learn faster while others slower and that is just something that NCLB cant see. I also dont understand why they would want the students that are doing well on the public schools changed to the private schools, those students should stay where they are because they are the ones that can serve as examples and motivation for the rest of the students, the schools can even use them to help the other students suceed academically as well. Due to this we see how the government cannot take over the Department of Education since I bet that once those politcians graduated from high school they havent stepped into a classroom ever since.