Stephan:   Here is what the nonsense of teaching to the test, and No Child Left Behind (a singularly inapposite name for a law) have bequeathed to us. In an age when technological skills are the path to a successful society, the U.S.is becoming the junior varsity. All of this arises because we have been making policy on the basis of ideology and theology instead of facts. The proof of this can be seen in the fact that, as with healthcare, we spend more than any other country yet get stunningly mediocre social outcomes.