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Don’t let anyone convince you that we don’t know how to shrink America’s persistent academic achievement gap. The solutions are staring right at us. The issue isn’t know-how. It’s a lack of political will.
The people in charge of public education have chosen to place job security above the well-being of students. Children attend schools that have been failure factories since before they were born, and in some cases before their parents were born. Yet these schools remain in operation because they provide solid middle-class employment opportunities for adults. They continue to underperform because they reward teacher seniority over competence.
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Jason L. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist at The Wall Street Journal, and a Fox News commentator. Follow him on Twitter here.