The theory that schools alone can't overcome economic disadvantage is wrong, write three managers in The Washington Post. "Plenty of evidence demonstrates that schools can make an enormous difference despite the challenges presented by poverty and family background." For example, low income "Boston fourth-graders outscored those in Detroit by 33 points." Maybe. But as Tom Hoffman responds to this post, "The fact that Boston has higher achievement than Detroit shows the unimportance of outside school factors? Couldn't it equally well show the opposite? They make a strange and frankly dishonest argument here." It could well indeed.
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