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I read this with equal parts head-nodding-agreement and shame-faced-embarrassment: The first disadvantage of an elite education, as I learned in my kitchen that day, is that it makes you incapable of talking to people who aren’t like you. Elite schools pride themselves on their diversity, but that diversity is almost entirely a matter of…
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Buckeye State Blog uncovers an interesting bit of legislation in the Ohio Revised Code regarding required standardized testing for community schools and suggests that it’s actually intended to reduce competition among charter schools, rather than encourage it. The leap of faith you have to make in buying the argument is, of course, the cost…