Believe it or not, Sec Spellings is already claiming that No Child Left Behind deserves credit for the modest increase in writing scores nation-wide. From a press release from the US Dept of Education.

"U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today highlighted the results of The Nation's Report Card^TM: Writing 2007. Secretary Spellings commended educators and students for the significant progress made under No Child Left Behind."

This can't be true.