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The Best and Worst in Education - 2008
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
12/22/2008
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In many ways, 2008 was a great year for education, with the election of a new president who is willing to both invest in and reform American schools. Also encouraging was the emergence of a new kind of school integration based primarily on economic status to replace race-based plans struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. At the same time, however, 2008 was deeply disheartening year for education, as long-running tensions between some civil rights groups and liberal pundits on the one hand, and teacher unions and academics on the other, threatened to deteriorate into an all-out education war on the left.. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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