“Society likes to think that the SAT measures people’s ability or merit,” Mr. Fitzsimmons said. “But no one in college admissions who visits the range of secondary schools we visit, and goes to the communities we visit — where you see the contrast between opportunities and fancy suburbs and some of the high schools that aren’t so fancy — can come away thinking that standardized tests can be a measure of someone’s true worth or ability.”
Hurricane Katrina brought a wave of young, new teachers to New Orleans
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After Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans 20 years ago, its school system
started over. Many of the city's veteran educators were replaced with young
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