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Robert Pondiscio

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Posted inOpinion

OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

by Robert Pondiscio December 16, 2020December 15, 2020

What if we can’t change at scale the distribution of academic outcomes among disparate groups of students? What if our hope that public education can erase inequality is in vain? If these things were true, how would what we ask of schools — and how we measure their success — change? If there was ever […]

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