Ep 48 | The A That Wasn't
Two education stories landed eight days apart this month, and they are really one story. Dr. Charles Cole III breaks down the New York Post front-page report on California high school GPAs climbing while college math skills fall, a piece he is quoted in, alongside Nikole Hannah-Jones's New York Times Magazine essay on the decade-long cost of the school she chose for her daughter. In the black and white, Dr. Cole lays out the data and the personal story straight down the middle. In the color commentary, he makes the case that both pieces expose the same broken promise, the gap between the…
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