Anyone here bothered by the implications of this discussion on our future class divisions based on race and income? If the test scores now more starkly define school quality, and the savvy, higher income parents gravitate to these area, where does this leave the poorer blacks and latinos? They are stuck with the failing schools and impossible-to-fire teachers.
The NCLB program, for all its faults, at least attempted to measure performance, the first step toward improvement. The next step ought to be to both improve those measures and then implement real steps fundamentally reform ALL schools.
The real casualties here are the eager, bright inner city students and their parents who are trapped in failed neighborhood-based schools.
