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Barack Obama: “The fact is, No Child Left Behind has done more to stigmatize and demoralize our students and teachers in struggling…”

On the recordNovember 19, 2007
The fact is, No Child Left Behind has done more to stigmatize and demoralize our students and teachers in struggling schools than it has to marshal the talent and the determination and the resources to turn them around.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks in Manchester

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