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Discussing Nikole Hannah-Jones’ New York Times column: Pondiscio on “The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie”

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By Robert Pondiscio
| Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis
VIDEO Senior Fellow Robert Pondiscio discusses Nikole Hannah-Jones’ New York Times column on The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie.
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The Lessons We’re Not Learning from Nikole Hannah-Jones

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By Robert Pondiscio
| Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis
I’m going to be impatient and blunt: Nikole Hannah-Jones’s daughter did not fail to learn fractions because she and her classmates were black. Her teacher did not repeatedly fail to show up to work because the school was segregated. Neither did her assignments go ungraded because affluent children attended school elsewhere. The report cards and grades she received that concealed her elementary-level deficiencies were not caused by insufficient funding.
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Good Schools Are Built on Effective Execution

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By Robert Pondiscio
| Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis
Roland Fryer observes that “resources alone can’t explain disparate outcomes among schools serving similar children with similar budgets” (“The Education of Nikole Hannah-Jones,” op-ed, Sept. 24). He’s right, but we should follow that insight where it leads. For decades, education debates have focused nearly to exclusion on structures and inputs: funding, segregation, poverty, class size, governance and school choice. These things matter.
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