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Sunday Dialogue - Improving Our Schools - NYTimes.com


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readers' reactions to the previous editorial talking about how poverty hurts testing scores in USA.

Research shows that increasing testing does not increase achievement. A better investment is protecting children from the effects of poverty, in feeding the animal, not just weighing it.

I truly believe this.

The environment in which a child grows up affects their ability to learn significantly.

We need to address the poverty problem in America.

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