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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

This Week In Education: Rebuttal: Quality Education Still Unavailable To Too Many Kids

This Week In Education: Rebuttal: Quality Education Still Unavailable To Too Many Kids

Rebuttal: Quality Education Still Unavailable To Too Many Kids

Here's a great response to Nick Lemann's New Yorker piece from charter schools guru Greg Richmond originally posted on my Facebook page (why aren't we friends yet?):

Post_full_1283259091school"This essay is pretty weak. When half of children in urban high schools drop out and many of the graduate have grade-school skill levels, this author wants us to take comfort in the fact that public education didn't really exist