Linda Darling-Hammond gets to the heart of education policy problems - Voices of Change - 0 views
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Jeff Bernstein on 20 Jan 12Darling-Hammond zeroes in on how new federal programs - the proposed Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Race to the Top guidelines - deal with schools in the bottom 5%. Federal policy now formally redlines these schools, she concludes, just as banks have used a red line on a map to exclude some poor and minority communities from any kind of investment, mortgage or commercial loan.