Roy Barnes, former Governor of Georgia and witness at the No Child Left Behind hearing, talks about the importance of the No Child Left Behind act, for the sake of our country’s future.
Barnes says that this is not about if kids should learn more Shakespeare but rather if we are to be a competitive nation the next 50 years or even a nation at all for the next 150 years. (0:15)
March 13, 2007
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