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The Urgent Moral Case for Replacing Persistently Failing Schools

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When year after year schools try to improve but do not, dramatic intervention is urgently needed.

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At a time when social mobility, income inequality and joblessness for the under-educated dominate the national discussion, it is notable that our Presidential candidates have largely avoided talking about elementary and secondary education.

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