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DeVos and the limits of the education reform movement

  • Written by Jack Schneider, Assistant Professor of Education, College of the Holy Cross
Betsy DeVos, shaking hands at a school choice rally shortly before she became education secretary in 2017AP Photo/Maria Danilova

Betsy DeVos exposed the education reform movement’s pitfalls in her highest-profile media appearance to date.

President Donald Trump’s education secretary got the job based on her years of advocacy for...

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