Larry Cuban wrote about the UNICEF report The Children Left Behind on his blog recently.
In brief, the report looks at the disparity between "the middle" and "the poor," in industrialized countries and draws the conclusion that government policies can make the difference in helping disadvantaged children in in material well-being, educational well-being, and health well-being. Cuban concludes that the refusal of the educational establishment (and the ancillary media, business interests, pundits, etc.) to recognize that and to question the educational policies that lead to No Child Left Behind to apply the free market to education are misguided at best.
Go read Cuban... seriously.
http://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/international-rankings-that-reformers-ignore-the-children-left-behind/
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