From the Answer Sheet in the Washington Post:
By Anthony Cody
President Obama repeated a familiar refrain about the importance of teachers in his State of the Union speech: “A great teacher can offer an escape from poverty to the child who dreams beyond his circumstance.”
But it seems that it is those in power who are actually using teachers to escape from the realities of poverty these days.
President Obama offered as evidence a citation from a recent report by researchers at Harvard and Columbia universities:
“We know a good teacher can increase the lifetime income of a classroom by over $250
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