Whenever George Bush musters up the courage to go before a predominantly African-American audience (which isn't every often), he likes to talk about the "soft bigotry of low expectations." And if anyone knows about low expectations, it's George Bush. But I digress.
Bush likes to cite the No Child Left Behind Act as evidence of his alledged commitment to closing the education gap between African-Americans and Caucasian childen.
But a report by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (an organization that studies issues affecting minorities), concludes that the No Child Left Behind Act has actually hurt minority studies.
From an Associated Press article:
Flawed government policies and negative stereotyping of minority men have limited their economic opportunities, a new study says. It urges improved health care and education for minorities and less media consolidation.
The study by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a research and policy group that focuses on issues that affect minorities, examined the impact of U.S. policies on men of black, Hispanic, Asian and Native American descent.
It said the media and entertainment industries overrepresent minorities as criminals and whites as victims and law enforcers. Blacks are twice as likely as white defendants to be subject to negative pretrial publicity, it said. For Hispanics, three times as likely.
Meanwhile, federal laws such as the No Child Left Behind Act have hurt minorities by driving good teachers away from high-poverty schools to better-funded ones where whites are more highly represented, the report contends.http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=78&sid=974754
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