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Re "The Great Stagnation of American Education" (Sunday Review, Sept. 8):
Robert J. Gordon, like others demanding educational reform, is moving away from the central myth we have been told since the 1980s, that the primary cause of economic inequality in the United States today is failing schools, deficient students and defective teachers.
This myth serves the interests of politicians and financial elites because blaming public education takes attention away from the realities of the deep economic and social disparities that, in themselves, are the root cause of unequal schooling.
"Just work harder on those tests," they seem to say, "and no one will pay attention to the real economic reasons a few grow rich and powerful while increasing numbers of people do not."
Mr. Gordon's article is a hopeful indication that reformers outside public education are realizing that schools are a result of economic realities, not the cause of them. Our schools reflect society more than they create it.
ARTHUR T. COSTIGAN
Bronx, Sept. 9, 2013
The writer is an assistant professor of education at Queens College, CUNY.
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