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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Schools Matter: Mindless Jay Mathews Declares DC Achievement Gap Mindless Measure

Schools Matter: Mindless Jay Mathews Declares DC Achievement Gap Mindless Measure

Mindless Jay Mathews Declares DC Achievement Gap Mindless Measure

Yesterday:
The D.C. mayoral race is deeply split on most issues, but everyone agrees on one thing: We must reduce the achievement gap between minority and white students. It is too bad, then, that that the gap is such a mindless measure of school progress.
Obviously, Jay has joined other bold reformers such as the recently-fired Bret Schundler of New Jersey whose efforts to remake New Jersey schools in the corporate image led him to denounce New Jersey Public Schools as a “wretched system” and the state’s #1 national rankings on the NAEP in both 4th and 8th grade reading and