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Your Take: Bill a Threat to Poor Students
While some of the gridlock among policymakers today can be chalked up to principled differences in political philosophy, some political stalemates are the result of policies that defy common sense. This most often happens when politicians ignore basic realities in order to further their own ideologies. This behavior is frustrating in any instance but is…
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Your Take: Lessons From the Atlanta Cheating Scandal
We teach children that “cheaters never win.” Unfortunately for the students of the Atlanta Public Schools, it’s a lesson that the adults in charge have apparently not yet learned. Last week a state investigation found evidence that more than 150 APS staff members directly participated in or knew of schemes to change student answer sheets…
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Your Take: Trigger Laws Are No Magic Bullet for Failing Schools
We all love it when parents get aggressive about their kids’ education. In an era of dismal achievement gaps, the public tends to cheer even harder when parents are low-income, black or Latino. Whether it’s a felony-offense fib to get a child into a better school district, or forcing a slacking high school kid to…
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