Rick Hess is from Venus. Teachers are from Earth.
Why Achievement Gap Mania Undermines Reform.
Rick Hess’ home is the right-wing think tank of the American Enterprise Institute.
Ed Week has provided Hess with a second home.
Why?
Couldn’t tell you.
His column this week attacks what he calls The Achievement Gap Mania.
What is that? The Gap is the persistent failure of public policies aimed at narrowing the differences in educational opportunities and results between the white and the wealthy on the one hand, and the poor and children of color on the other hand.
For Hess, The Mania is the concern over the widening gap expressed by those who care about social justice and
