Subgroup Reporting and School Segregation.

This article asserts that one of the more prominent features of the federal No Child Left Behind Act is the requirement that schools and districts track the performance of subgroups of students. While the law identifies several subgroups, including low-income and English-language learners, the low performance of black and Hispanic students should be of particular concern. More than 40 percent of New York state schools with 4th grades served only white students in 2001-02, and over 20 percent served only nonwhite students, meaning that less than 35 percent of the state's schools served both white and nonwhite students.