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OPINION: Black-white disparities in education correlate with teachers’ implicit biases, but it will take more than education reform to solve the issue

The Hechinger Report

Many leaders in education have similarly called for action to address the biases of those working in schools across the country. Other educational policies can challenge the structural forces directly contributing to racial biases in schools, such as reforming school discipline, equity-focused school finance reform and school integration.

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4 Charts That Show What College Is Worth

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He’s director of editorial and education policy at the university’s Center on Education and the Workforce, which released its own analysis of College Scorecard data earlier this year. But the lowest median salary goes to library and archives students, at not-quite $15,000. Ever heard of naval architects?

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Critics warn that well-meaning reforms may be lowering the quality of college

The Hechinger Report

“I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want to improve education, but our good intentions can make us unintentionally do the wrong things,” said Frederick Hess, founding director of the education policy studies program at the Washington think tank the American Enterprise Institute.

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Will “school choice on steroids” get a boost under a Trump administration?

The Hechinger Report

It remains to be seen whether a Trump Administration will boost them further, using federal policy. The growth of “Course Choice” initiatives in various states was chronicled in depth by The Hechinger Report last year, in this story from our archives. — The editors.