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Jeffrey Aaron Snyder is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Carleton College. He teaches courses on past and present educational policy and school reform movements. His writing has appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Education Week, and the New Republic, among other publications. He is the author of the book Making Black History: Race, Culture, and the Color Line in the Age of Jim Crow.
By and large, admissions tests register rather than create inequality.
Public School Advantage argues that market-based strategies are counterproductive.
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