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In burying merit awards, school takes equity to an extreme

Por: The Boston Globe Opinion January 11, 2023

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Jeff Jacoby’s newsletter excerpt (Opinion, Jan. 5), about how officials at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., decided not to notify the families of top-performing students that they had qualified as National Merit Scholars, is nothing if not a wake-up call. The idea that we should jettison the aspirational goal of equality of opportunity for the defeatist goal of equality of outcome — we cannot... + full article



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