stephanie simon is the senior education reporter for politico and joins us now from boston. so, this was approved in a bipartisan manner. what's wrong now, 10 12, years later? >> it was a very bipartisan bill as you said, had huge support. to give you some idea, ted kennedy and john boehner was coauthors of it, so that gives you a hint of how widely it was approved. and now 12 years later, people are looking back and thinking that there are huge problems with this bill. it mandated annual testing in reading and math for students in grades 3-8 and again in high school, and there's a huge backlash now against so much standardized testing. and it also set out strict sanctions for schools that did not continually improve their students' performance on those tests and that also has created a huge backlash and kind of an idea there's too much federal interference in local schools expwhrar one of the critiques in between periods was schools were trying to teach to the test just to get those numbers up, right? >> exactly right. there were sort of two strategies. a number of states a