Comments on: OPINION: How to keep our most vulnerable students from losing ground in the pandemic https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-how-to-keep-our-most-vulnerable-students-from-losing-ground-in-the-pandemic/ Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:19:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ed Johnson https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-how-to-keep-our-most-vulnerable-students-from-losing-ground-in-the-pandemic/comment-page-1/#comment-23464 Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:19:26 +0000 https://hechingerreport.org/?p=78262#comment-23464 Tawana Grover states in her Opinion piece titled “How to keep our most vulnerable students from losing ground in the pandemic” that:

“Nationally, by June of this year, students of color could be six to 12 months behind in math, while white students will be four to eight months behind, a McKinsey study found.”

Why in the world would anyone listen to McKinsey about education and racial disparities? There’s a reason McKinsey paid nearly 600 million dollars in settlement for its role in perpetuating the opioid crisis. In a word, greed, untethered from any semblance of morals and ethics. Well, that’s several words. So why believe McKinsey’s stripes are any different when it comes to education–public K-12 education, in particular–and racial disparities?

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