“It would have chilled Martin Luther King’s blood to see how the struggle for equality has been narrowed into a race for higher test scores in a society that abandoned Lyndon Johnson’s ‘War on Poverty.’”
Them’s fightin’ words.
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“It would have chilled Martin Luther King’s blood to see how the struggle for equality has been narrowed into a race for higher test scores in a society that abandoned Lyndon Johnson’s ‘War on Poverty.’”
Them’s fightin’ words.
I have waited nearly a week for someone to jump into this conversation. If Deborah Meier’s passionate thoughts are “fightin’ words” who, exactly, would she be tempting into a brawl?
Because she’s correct. Narrowing a definition of “equality” down to raised test scores is a thin, stingy policy goal for a nation that prides itself on opportunity.