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How about Rene Denfeld?

posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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There is an active discussion going on between featured guests Peter Campbell and Sarah Carlin Ames (and others) on [i][url=http://ppsequity.org/2008/08/06/open-letter-to-sarah-carlin-ames/]PPS Equity[/url][/i] for those interested in some follow-up.

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Test scores have become a proxy for class and race.

By branding a school as "failing", we give middle class, white families a socially acceptable way to justify transferring their kids out of schools with large populations of poor and minority students.

The obsession with literacy and numeracy misses the big picture, and ultimately contributes to resegregation and a demonstrably less opportunity for poor and minority students.

posted 4 years, 9 months ago
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