Instead, what we are seeing is a persistent (and in some cases increasing) de facto segregation of schools along fissures of race and economic class, between urban and suburban districts, as well as within cities themselves. We see rising tuitions at public universities and the under-resourcing of community colleges, one of the unheralded backbones of our educational community. We see educational standards based more on politics than on pedagogy. And when it comes to training future generations, there are few professions more important than teaching, and yet teachers are compensated at levels
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