Merit demands excellence and rigor. It is not, as its critics often insist, an elitist, classist or racist value.
Tag: Education (K-12)
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Education in America: School Is for Learning to Read
All kinds of kids, from all kinds of families — rich, poor and middle class — need more help with reading than they’re getting in school.
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Education in America: School Is for Making Citizens
Public education requires lessons about history and also contact with and context about other Americans: who we are and what has made us.
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The Pandemic Erased Two Decades of Progress in Math and Reading
The results of a national test showed just how devastating the last two years have been for 9-year-old schoolchildren, especially the most vulnerable.