Why ‘no excuses’ makes no sense: Revisiting the Coleman report
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This was written by Gary Ravani, who taught middle school for more than 30 years in Petaluma. He served for 19 years as president of the Petaluma Federation of Teachers, is currently president of the California Federation of Teachers’ Early Childhood/K-12 Council. Ravani, in this post, reveals why the “no-excuses” school reform movement, which chooses to ignore the consequences of poverty on student achievement, is unfair.
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