This isn't surprising, considering that innovation, responsible risk-taking, and teacher leadership are rarely encouraged, valued, or supported in education. Of course, there are pockets of teachers and schools that are doing ...
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Closing the achievement gap between rich and poor, a teacher writes, will first require Americans to recognize a far more uncomfortable reality: The policies employed to purportedly address the struggles of low-income children have ushered in a new... Via Mary Perfitt-Nelson 
Mary Perfitt-Nelson's curator insight,
December 31, 2012 9:32 AM
Yes, poverty makes a huge difference in student achievement.
Love the last sentence: (Good schools) emerge from healthy, stable communities. That is, they emerge from a commitment to justice. 
AnnC's curator insight,
January 1, 10:12 PM
See through the rhetoric to the reality - we need empathy and justice! Delete the scoop?
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