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Pushing “Teacher Equity” to Put Children First | The Defenders Online | A Civil Rights Blog

Pushing “Teacher Equity” to Put Children First | The Defenders Online | A Civil Rights Blog

Pushing “Teacher Equity” to Put Children First

By Kenneth J. Cooper
One of the more important but overlooked provisions of No Child Left Behind was aimed at making sure poor children get a fair share of the better teachers. In the decade since the federal education law was adopted, however, the “teacher equity” provision has not been widely implemented, and the national pattern of low-income students receiving instruction from less qualified teachers has not changed much.