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Was American education ever great? What Linda McMahon gets wrong about the past

Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name. Education Secretary Linda McMahon has long said she wants to “make education great again.” “American schooling, for generations, was the envy of the world,” she explained in a speech last week at a…

Was American education ever great? What Linda McMahon gets wrong about the past

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