Proof You Shouldn’t Blame Teachers For The Achievement Gap

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1. Another issue that we've conceded....

....just like buying into the "taxes are bad" or the "deficit is bad" baseline discussion starting point, by falling for the charter school/standards and accountability/testing-uber-alles talking points we've already started going down the "blame the teachers/blame the unions" rabbit hole.

It's not too late for us to turn around just like it's not on those other issues as well. The Democratic party just has to want it. They have to see how it will benefit them and the voters.

It's going to require our elected officials to spend a bit more time outside of the beltway bubble where the most important opinions are those of David Brooks, or Joe Scarborough, or Tom Friedman. I'm not sure they are will to do that.