"Decades of school reform efforts in the United States have had little to no impact on closing opportunity gaps . From A Nation at Risk, through the standards movement, to the carrot and stick accountability provisions of the No Child Left Behind era, we have failed to unseat institutional racism and other inequities. The pandemic and recent spotlight on racial injustice have laid bare a simple but painful truth: our institutions and systems are doing exactly what they were designed to do: to act in the best interest of the privileged and powerful at the expense of historically marginalized children and their families"-- Provided by publisher.

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