Equity and Excellence in American Public Schools

Published October 18, 2023

Excellence, not mediocrity, provides the key to achieving greater equity in education. The view of equity as a zero-sum game requires limiting high achievers and is unpopular, misguided, and wrong. It is misguided to embrace policies or practices that put a ceiling on any child’s achievement.

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