Harvard study blasts Bush education policy

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President Bush's No Child Left Behind education policy has in some cases benefited white middle-class children over blacks and other minorities in poorer regions, a Harvard University study showed Tuesday.

Political compromises forged between some states and the federal government have allowed schools in some predominantly white districts to dodge penalties faced by regions with larger ethnic minority populations, the study said.

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But instead of uniform standards, the policy has allowed various states to negotiate treaties and bargains to reduce the number of schools and districts identified as failing, said the study by Harvard University's Civil Rights Project.

"There's a very uneven effect. There are no clear uniform standards that are governing No Child Left Behind. If one state gets one thing, another state can do something else," the study's lead author, Gail Sunderman, said in an interview.

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/02/16/bush.education.reut/index.html

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1. The plan is working perfectly

for bush and his kind, to hell with the rest of America. And, the right wing hate machine will soon savage Harvard for its honest, clear, concise, to the point study. And the base will eat it up, giving them even more reason to hate education.

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3. Agree. The faculty is fighting back and is on Larry Summers again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/education/14harvard.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
"They cited deficits in the budget of the Faculty of Arts and Science; what they described as a slowdown in the hiring of new faculty members in disciplines not favored by Mr. Summers; the departure of a number of senior administrators; and a $26.5 million settlement by Harvard of a civil suit filed by federal prosecutors that involved investments by a Harvard economics professor, a friend of Mr. Summers, who was working on a federal contract to help privatize Russia's economy."


Does Larry Link to the Russian Maffiya? A google of Oligarchs yields tons of interesting information. Maybe the Harvard faculty has it oil figured out?

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2. The last thing the ReTHUGs or the fundamentalists want is a well

educated constituency.

[against all enemies]

4. Typical eastern LIBERAL university, reported by LIBERAL press.

It's so easy being a Republican puke. Oh, I forgot, Clinton did it.

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5. gasp -- you mean the schools with money can figure out how to get around

the rules?

and the poor schools don't have the money to get around them?

what about ''no child left behind'' wasn't ill conceived?


another bush failure.