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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: Ruben Navarrette: Keep Bush's school standards
The NAACP supports NCLB. Is that because they are not devoted to fighting racism or don't have any experience with people of color? How silly can you be? Art In a message dated 3/1/2006 7:58:17 PM Pacific Standard Time, learn@jps.net writes: Recently Ruben Navarrette devoted a column to defending California's High School Exit Exam. His most recent column suggests that the so-called No Child Left Behind Act is a good thing, whose purpose and effect is to expose racism in public education. He quotes President Bush on "the soft bigotry of low expectations," implying that the main reason many students of color are not succeeding is the attitude of their white teachers, administrators and school board members ("and anyone who turns a blind eye to the mediocrity of public schools.")
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