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Episode 166: The Convenient Conventional Wisdom of "Education as Great Equalizer" Appeals

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Charter Schools in Poor Neighborhoods Can Help Close Achievement Gap

The term achievement gap has exploded in news media and elsewhere. It's been used to exalt charter schools as well, particularly those that have cropped up in resource starved neighborhoods over the past two decades. This kind of boot strap education as anti poverty measure would become consensus. Former us. President george w. Bush saide, education is the key to opportunity, is the ticket out of poverty.

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