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Whose children have been left behind? Framing the 2012 ed debate - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Whose children have been left behind? Framing the 2012 ed debate - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

Whose children have been left behind? Framing the 2012 ed debate

The battles over education policy that marked 2011 will continue, ever more heated, in the new year. As a starting point, and in honor of this Sunday’s 10th anniversary of the day when president George W. Bush signed No Child Left Behind into law, here is a speech written by education historian Diane Ravitch that addresses what is really at stake in the fight over how to fix troubled public schools.

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