Sacramento District Ignores Report Suggesting Closing Schools for Affluent White Kids, Instead Shutters Seven Schools Filled with Poor and Minority Kids The Sacramento city school district is poised to close […]
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No Rich Child Left Behi...
In the New York Times, Sean F. Reardon writes, “…much of our public conversation about education is focused on the wrong culprits: we blame failing schools and the behavior of […]
Teachers Make Handy Scapegoats, But Spiraling Inequality Is Really What Ails Our Education Syst...
Stanford University scholar Linda Darling-Hammond explains the connection. No shortage of ink had been put to paper pondering what it is that ails America’s education system. We know that, on […]
The Secret to Fixing Bad Schoo...
In an op-ed in the New York Times, Professor of Public Policy David Kirp provides a strong example that demonstrates that public schools aren’t failing students, as groups like ALEC […]