Leaving ‘No Child Left Behind’ Behind
By Richard Rothstein
December 18, 2007
Opinion pieces and speeches by EPI staff and
associates.
[THIS ARTICLE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE 2008 JANUARY/FEBRUARY EDITION OF THE AMERICAN PROSPECT.]
Leaving “No Child Left Behind”
Behind
Our No. 1 education program
is incoherent, unworkable, and doomed. But the next president still
can have a huge impact on improving American schooling.
Richard Rothstein is a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.
[POSTED TO VIEWPOINTS ON DECEMBER 17,
2007.]
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