Re: from Harvard: the new "social promotion"

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To: arn-l@interversity.org; fcarforum@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:39:11 -0400
Subject: [arn-l] from Harvard: the new "social promotion"

 Cambridge, MA—February 10, 2006—A new study by the Civil Rights 
Project at Harvard University (CRP) shows how the federal No Child Left 
Behind Act (NCLB) is being changed through a series of negotiations 
between the U.S. Department of Education and individual states. ...

 ... For example, changes some states have negotiated in how districts 
are held accountable under NCLB reduce the number of districts 
identified for improvement, but these changes primarily benefit those 
districts serving more white than minority students.
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 Right. States are not falling all over themselves to improve their 
schools, particularly the schools that serve large numbers of poor and 
minority students. That's why the NAACP is arguing in federal court 
that states should enforce the "letter and spirit" of NCLB. And we 
don't need a study from Harvard to know the reasons states are not 
going all out to improve their schools: They don't want to spend the 
money, they don't want to do the work, and they don't want to fight the 
special interests that look out for themselves. In any event, this 
study is another contradiction of the loony paranoia on this list that 
NCLB is a stealth tool to destroy public education so that the Business 
Roundtable can take over. Disgraceful, absolutely disgraceful.

Art

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