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Article: Unequal educational opportunities for gifted students: robbing Peter to pay Paul?
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- Fordham Urban Law Journal
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre education performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. (1)
With these provocative words, the National Commission on Excellence in Education's seminal report, A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform, (2) gave birth to a plethora of reform reports aimed at reinvigorating the quality of American schools. (3) Previously, the Supreme Court's monumental decision in Brown v. Board of Education (4) served as the impetus to propel local and national leaders to take steps to ensure equal educational opportunities for all students by recognizing ...