How America abandoned the only policy that consistently closes the black-white educational gap

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@Medievalist

I should have said this earlier, but the only policies that consistently close the black-white educational gap are actually small class sizes and low student teacher ratio.

There should be no more than 11 students per teacher, and no less than 2 teachers per class, if you want every single student to get the instruction they need regardless of ability and prior education.

Works on every race, gender, color, and creed.

…and how do you get smaller class sizes? By hiring more teachers, and treating them well enough that there are a sufficient supply of qualified people willing to do it.

In other words, taxes. And focus your education funding on coalface teaching staff, not administrative cruft, football nonsense and architectural follies.