Opinion
Low K-12 Standards Do a Disservice to All
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In the 60 years since Brown v. Board of Education, we've repeatedly seen the promise of equal educational opportunity denied to poor and minority children. These inequities come in many different forms, but the most pernicious is the low expectations placed on those who have access to the fewest resources. In 1997, the U.S. Department of Education released an illuminating study about the education of disadvantaged students. Buried in the findings was a simple statement: A strai...

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