No Child Left Behind.

Bush the Junior has pushed hard for legislation aimed at improving education. That's a goal which is noble and essential. One of the hallmarks of the plan is to require standarized testing, presumeably to ensure that all high school graduates have at least a minimum basic understanding of important facts and skills. Who could argue with that?

States are finding out that many of their high school seniors cannot pass the tests and therefore cannot graduate. Is the problem that the students are undereducated? Is it that too many students lack the essential skill of test-taking? Is the test bad?

I say it's time to put the test to the test. Let's have a highly visible, well-educated person take the same test that high school seniors have to take. I'm thinking of a graduate of one of the nation's top prep schools. He went on to get a BA at Yale and an MBA at Harvard. After a long, successful career in which he headed up several successful businesses, he became governor of a large state and then became the President of the USA.

George, sharpen your pencils and sit down. No cheating.