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The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.
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Regarding the No Child Left Behind Act.
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The Age of Educational Romanticism, The New Criterion, Thursday, May 1, 2008

 

Charles Murray

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