No Child Left Behind Debated

From the Washington Square Times, this debate is a start but not the answer...

The No Child Left Behind Act is flawed and must be changed, a panel of experts from the Steinhardt School of Education said at a town hall meeting in front of 250 audience members last night.

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“It will be reauthorized, and there will be changes made,” Ravitch said. “It’s not going away.”
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Both panelists criticized the act for creating what they feel is a loss of control of local government and the community over how schools are run.
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The panelists also discussed the problem of how the act deals with racial inequality in schools.

“We now have schools in the United States that are more segregated than they were 20 years ago,” Ravitch said. “There’s no mention of racial segregation in NCLB.”

Noguera said the pursuit of prestige sometimes eclipses equality.

“Even in liberal cities like New York, people are more concerned about keeping their kids in gifted schools than in integrated schools,” Noguera said.

Brabeck said the discussion represented true diversity in opinion.
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Which it wasn't. The two main debaters were not very far apart at all, but it's a start...
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