Re: Poverty

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

I'm sure that poor children all over the nation will be just jumping for  you 
to learn that you blame George Bush and NCLB for all their  problems.  As if 
poor children lived in the promised land under other  presidents and prior 
incarnations of ESEA.  NCLB requires states to improve  their schools.  If states 
are not doing that, blaming NCLB and George Bush  is an exercise in 
silliness.  If you really want to do improve  educational conditions for poor children, 
get after the states to improve  their schools.  
 
Art
 
In a message dated 6/25/2006 3:40:42 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
campbellp@mail.montclair.edu writes:

George  W. Bush said that NCLB will close the achievement gap. 
Period. It does  not. Period.

So I blame a law called "No Child Left Behind" for leaving  countless 
numbers of children behind. I blame a president who says that  
NCLB will close the achievement gap for failing to address the  
multiplicity of sources that contribute to the achievement gap, 
chief  of which is the fact that children living in conditions of 
squalor will  not achieve at the level of their affluent  peers.