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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Schools Matter: It's the Socioeconomic Segregation, Stupid

Schools Matter: It's the Socioeconomic Segregation, Stupid:

It's the Socioeconomic Segregation, Stupid


It’s theSocioeconomic Segregation, Stupid
Jim Horn

Ina piece for The Nation by a fewdays ago, Linda Darling-Hammond demolishes most of the remaining chunks of anysize within the crumbling structure of corporate education’s mostironically-titled reform ever—No Child Left Behind. NCLB is rubble, even though many unseen victims continue tobe buried beneath its mammoth pile. Darling-Hammond, who was recruited to get Team Obama up to speed oneducation issues following the 2008 election, entitled her piece, “Why IsCongress Redlining Our Schools?” Itshould be noted that as soon as Team Obama got a lay of the edu-land, theydismissed Darling-Hammond and brought in corporate lackey, Arne Duncan, toserve as titular head of ED while the corporate foundations run the show. Now that I think about it,