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Nikole Hannah-Jones just ran head-first into the great dumbing-down

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Nikole Hannah-Jones critiques the state of public high school education, arguing that schools are failing to produce literate and numerate graduates.

Education bureaucrats across the nation are burying evidence of a widespread and unpleasant truth: Public high schools are churning out barely literate, almost innumerate graduates.

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