An argument for how to engage students and narrow achievement gaps: Let them debate    - CommonWealth Beacon

An argument for how to engage students and narrow achievement gaps: Let them debate    - CommonWealth Beacon

MASSACHUSETTS HAS LONG been a leader in K-12 education, yet it has struggled to close the longstanding achievement gap between lower-income students and students of color and their white and more affluent peers. The pandemic only made things worse, as Massachusetts saw the largest widening of that gap of any state studied by researchers at the Center for Education Research Policy at Harvard and the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford.  E…