NCLB is Just or Unjust - Research Says....

-- The Harsh Bigotry of Flawed Strategies --

The seriously flawed NCLB strategies are hurting minority children the most according to recently released reports from the Project for Civil Rights at Harvard:

The reports demonstrate that federal accountability rules have derailed state reforms and assessment strategies, that the requirements have no common meaning across state lines, and that the sanctions fall especially hard on minority and integrated schools, asking for much less progress from affluent suburban schools.

Source: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/features/orfield02092004.html

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Authors: Gail L. Sunderman, Jimmy Kim and Gary Orfield

Additional Reports that failed to make the news: (Again from Havard Researchers)

Recent reports left out the fact that the Federal Government allowed states to ignore some two million minority students, comments from our current educational secretary regarding NCLB as being equitable are not only wrong but remarkably insentive.

For one who is fond (like the President) of accusing others of the "soft bigotry of low expectations," it seems odd that NCLB is considered equitable.