This morning, I am entering the 67th day of a partial fast that I
began early in the summer as my personal act of protest at the vicious
damage being done to inner-city children by the federal education law
No Child Left Behind, a racially punitive piece of legislation that
Congress will either renew, abolish, or, as thousands of teachers
pray, radically revise in the weeks immediately ahead.
The poisonous essence of this law lies in the mania of obsessive
testing it has forced upon our nation's...
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