Jonathan Schorr, a Partner at NewSchools, spoke at the 2009 Stanford Business of Education Symposium on April 30. Central to his speech was the recent McKinsey & Co. report that places a $700 billion price tag on the education achievement gap: the difference in performance between high- and low-income K-12 students.
Suprising new data on the Achievement Gap
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Posted May 27, 2009
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