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Many of those districts share something in common: a focus on literacy, instructional consistency, teacher coaching, accountability and human connection.
“The idea that there is some magical singular practice or policy or tool that, if we could just find it, would be like flipping a switch and then we could solve all the education problems is very seductive to people,” says Rachel Canter, director of education policy at the Progressive Policy Institute and founder of Mississippi First, a nonprofit that helped push successful literacy reforms in that state. “But change always takes time.”
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