The Power of Invisible Forces in Education

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There are lots of invisible forces that kind of carry people sometimes as people you know who are in more privileged positions. Sometimes they make even more of a difference for those that have greater barriers to overcome so coming from educators and then coming from broader institutions themselves schools. I think ultimately most of our studies look at one at a time right parents matter in this way peers matter in that way it's an experiment focused on the climate or this policy matters in this way but what in reality we're moving through all these things at the same time. It's going to take a lot of work for us to be able to pin down how they interact with one another when does one force over a way another out

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