Public education is not broken. It is not failing or declining. The diagnosis is wrong, and the solutions of the corporate reformers are wrong. Our urban schools are in trouble because of concentrated poverty and racial segregation. But public education is not broken. Public education is in a crisis only so far as society is and only so far as this new narrative of crisis has destabilized it.

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  • Education — The importance of teaching, learning, and intellectual curiosity

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