I give you the urgent education action news of the day — the re-name "no child left behind" braintrust:

Education Secretary Arne Duncan agrees. “Let’s rebrand it,” he said in an interview. “Give it a new name.”

And before Mr. Duncan has had time to float a single name, scores of educators, policy wonks and assorted rabble-rousers have rushed in with an outpouring of proposals.

Go figure.

Because there aren’t enough things to do, that time and budget must be spent renaming a program that has been such an abysmal failure that teachers everywhere mock it with abandon.

Because the results have been so clearly awesome that we should continue to allow our children’s art and music and athletic programs to continue to wither, while our kids are taught only rote answers to formulaic test questions instead of how to think for themselves. 

Some of the new names could have come straight from our comments section:

Nicknames for the law proliferated: No Child Left Untested, No Child’s Behind Left, No School Board Left Standing.

Since Mr. Rotherham announced his contest last week, Eduwonk has received 41 entries, including: the Double Back Around to Pick Up the Children We Left Behind Act, the Rearranging the Deck Chairs Act, the Teach to the Test Act and the Could We Start Again Please Act.

Suggestions? Because I know you have some…