Poverty & inequality: public education should reduce both by increasing opportunity & social mobility, and should ideally exist in a society that seeks to end poverty. Currently "ed reform" as devised by testers/turnaround businesspeople widens extremes in poverty & inequality — by reducing opportunity and ignoring poverty.
Radical Scholarship: Politics and Education Don't Mix (The Atlantic)
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Once we have that wall, education reform needs to be driven by educators and researchers who have lived, practiced, and considered carefully what the goals of education should be for a free people, what the hurdles are for improving educational outcomes for all children, and how to foster a culture …
