There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before.
Jonathan Kozol, The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
children, education, government, poverty, standardized-tests