Report Summary April 27, 2007
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Fixing Urban Schools
Has No Child Left Behind helped minority students?

An array of forces has slowed long-sought progress in narrowing the minority-student achievement gap among urban schools. Those forces include mixed results in nationwide test scores, three years of delay in reauthorizing the federal No Child Left Behind Act and a pivotal 2007 Supreme Court ruling on school desegregation that, combined with a severe recession, has steered the education debate toward. . . .

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Fixing urban schools. (2007, April 27). CQ Researcher, 17, 361-384. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/
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