The editors who usually edit this stuff out must have been distracted by the hurricane...from an interview with Jonathan Kozol:
Seriously, why would Republicans, who have traditionally opposed big government, encumber schools with the testing requirements attached to No Child Left Behind?
The kind of testing we are doing today is sociopathic in its repetitive and punitive nature. Its driving motive is to highlight failure in inner-city schools as dramatically as possible in order to create a ground swell of support for private vouchers or other privatizing schemes.
Do you not approve of private schools?
They starve the public school system of the presence of well-educated, politically effective parents to fight for equity for all kids.
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