The NHJ piece is obviously complicated, but also I hope her fans take away the message that simply giving up on standards is not the way to help minority kids, which she’s doubling down on admirably in the comments
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I also think people are really (intentionally) missing an important point, which has been consistent: *it’s very hard to make schools completely segregated by race equitable!*
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Yes, it’s hard and she’s torn about it. But I think at least on this point she’s coming away from her experience believing you have to at least try
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Yes totally but the thing that drives me crazy is that the context inside of which ALL education policy and reform convos happen is "well of course we're gonna have segregated schools!" but her whole point then and now is still: well we shouldn't.
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I mean, SCOTUS has made it basically illegal to even try so it is what it is, but everyone is skipping right past that because no one even tries to consider desegregation as an approach.
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Integration needs to be the ultimate goal. In the meantime, a criminally under-discussed lever in this discourse is the quality of school leadership. There are extremely high-performing leaders working in exactly these circumstances across NYC and the country—many of whom were…

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born and raised in the communities they serve. We should be studying them assiduously and building strong pipelines around what they do.
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And by high-performing, I mean leaders who understand that: 1) structure, rigor, and joy are not competing values — when enacted thoughtfully, they reinforce one another — and children are poorly served when we assume otherwise…
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