U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has announced a pilot plan to let some states “differentiate” between really bad schools and mediocre ones—i.e., those that fail just one or two of their subgroups instead of all of them. In exchange for a pressure valve on the so-so schools, states must agree to crack the whip on the most egregious offenders. Is this a well-calculated adjustment or a ham-fisted over-correction? Fordham’s own Michael Petrilli tells Fordham’s own Christina Hentges what he thinks about it in this week’s Fordham Factor.