How focusing on race can make a solution look like a problem
Eight years after Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act, American 9- and 13-year-olds are doing measurably better on standardized tests. Good news? Not necessarily. The New York Times report on NCLB carries the headline " 'No Child' Law Is Not Closing a Racial Gap."
Fair enough. If the law is helping white kids but doing nothing for blacks, that doesn't seem right. Only that isn't what's happening, as you learn from reading the actual report:
"Between 2004 and last year, scores for young minority students increased, but so did those of white students, leaving the achievement gap stubbornly wide..."
So minority kids are doing better than before. But because white kids are also doing better, and therefore the "gap" remains, the Times suggests the law is a failure. By this measure, it would have been better to pass a law that only benefits minorities than one that benefits everyone...
[Or better to have done nothing than to equally benefit everyone? These are the divide and conquer tactics of all race/sex/economic divisions exploited by the Left: 'other's success has been at your expense'... ]
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