The key message here is that "school experiences appear to exert relatively little influence, explaining just 10 to 20 percent of the differences in student outcomes. Effective schools can mitigate social inequality, but they govern only a fraction of students' lives and eventual outcomes." What explains the rest? A variety of factors, of course, but Shawna Young points to what she calls "the opportunity embargo", which she says "encompasses all the injustices and inequalities that students and young people face outside of the classroom, such as political disenfranchisement." I don't disagree with this observation, and would add that a lot of the focus on 'educational reform' seems to serve as a distraction from the real social and political reforms needed in society. Image: Good.
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