It’s not a failure. Its purpose is to equalize outcomes. The way to do that is to cripple the non-minoritah kids so the perform at the same level as the minoritahs.
Yes. It is much, much easier to create equality in a horse race by handicapping the leaders than by getting the scrubs to run faster.
I don’t believe this is a concious goal, at least for the great majority of “education reformers,” but it is inevitably implicit in their goal of reducing inequality of outcome.
The true goal of education, IMO, is to help every single child reach his/her maximum potential. If that were possible, then every single child would fare better than under present conditions. But the gap between the top and bottom would also be much greater than now.