The emphasis on measuring the achievement gap and the pressure to close it has other troubling effects. One is the blame heaped upon teachers and schools for their failure to accomplish what may be beyond their reach, and for reasons that have little to do with their own limitations. The logic of NCLB, “Race to the Top,” and similar programs, places the responsibility for closing achievement gaps on those who may have neither the power nor the ability to do so.
Through slogans and exhortations. Not through management
