Op-Ed: To Close The Achievement Gap, Don't Lower The Bar
Posted: January 10, 2013
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TweetFlorida and Virginia have adopted new academic standards setting different performance goals for subgroups of students in low-performing schools. In a Miami Herald piece, syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts argues that lowering the bar is not the way to fix the education system.
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