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Economic school integration: A response to Valerie Strauss and Jerry Weast
- 10-25-2010
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Guest blog by Richard D. Kahlenberg/Washington Post
While most school reform efforts are aimed at trying to make high-poverty schools equal to middle-class schools, The Century Foundation released a report last Friday finding that there appears to be a much better way to improve the prospects of low-income students: Give them a chance to live in more advantaged neighborhoods and attend schools with wealthier classmates. The report received some push-back from The Answer Sheet and from Jerry Weast, the school superintendent in Montgomery County, Maryland, the jurisdiction studied in the report. I’ll begin by sketching the major findings of the study and then respond to the criticisms. (more…)
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