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



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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.
See through the rhetoric to the reality - we need empathy and justice!