Turning Education's Rhetoric Into Reality
Lessons from a pioneering school district on simple truths and positive attitudes.
When policymakers say that "all children can learn," or that we should "leave no child behind," what some of them secretly believe is that certain kinds of children will never learn as much as others. In their simplicity, these idealistic phrases belie the difficulty of reducing the stubborn achievement gap between students of privilege and students...
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