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	<title><![CDATA[Things Fall Apart: No Child Left Behind Self-Destructs]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gerald-bracey/things-fall-apart-no-chil_b_35935.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p><br />
For the record, my first anti-No Child Left Behind (NCLB) article was commissioned by Newsday in late 2000 and published January 28, 2001. At the time, NCLB was a no-name plan, the administration not yet having ripped off the slogan of the Children's Defense Fund. But even then I saw not a great civil rights act as some, but yet another Orwellian double-speak program like Clear Skies, Clean Waters, and Healthy Forests--a program to accomplish the opposite of its...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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