On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, I cast a gimlet eye on the arguments by former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert and ivory-tower civil rights activists such as Richard Kahlenberg that socioeconomic integration is the only workable school reform. Contrary to their arguments, only the full overhaul of American public education — including reforming teacher quality and curriculum — will help poor and minority kids succeed in school and in life.
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