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Failing Schools: Not About Poverty, Parents

Steve Perry thinks you've been lied to. The CNN education contributor says that nearly every common premise used to explain underperforming schools -- the challenges of poverty, a lack of parental involvement, an underfunded public system -- is false.

I read Push Has Come to Shove by Dr. Steve Perry knowing I’d be challenged. Dr. Steve as I like to call him, steps up to the plate and throws a fastball shattering the notion that America cares about educating it's children, especially black and poor. -Bev Smith 

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