"Usefulness of Education Research Questioned"

The article "Usefulness of Education Research Questioned" enfasizes on the supposed irrelevance research on education has on the United States government. It is clear to see that they have, once again, proven that their attention is not on the people or the quality of students' education, but on their own pleasure and "good looking numbers." It is alarming how they have research results right in their faces, yet they decide to ignore them completely. It doesn't seem normal for me to see that the research says public school students are doing better that private schools students and the government will prefer to send public school students to private schools. I don't even know how in the world they would do that. Abut NCLB, this is an obvious intent of the government to control and manipulate education as they seem to do very well. NCLB doesn't seem like a very good idea to me because it focuses too much on numbers and not on the important things like quality of education and learning.