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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

history has resulted in persistent unequal access to opportunity. Some leaders have responded by endorsing policies that attempt to reduce the impacts of these “implicit” biases. Many leaders in education have similarly called for action to address the biases of those working in schools across the country.

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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.