An ‘Educational Equity’ Failure

Do progressive policies always harm the people they are supposed to help? - James Freeman

This column is still searching for evidence of a great civilization built by progressive leftists. 

• In the meantime, gazing out over the panorama of our largely free society, it’s hard to spot progressives at any level of government who are achieving genuine policy success. 
• It’s become nearly axiomatic that their reforms harm the people they are supposed to help. 

Especially outrageous is when adults force children to bear all the costs of political experimentation.
Math and physics teacher Ryan Normandin chairs the faculty council at Newton South High School in Massachusetts. He writes in the Boston Globe about one such ongoing experiment:

In autumn 2021, against the already-challenging backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and remote learning, the Newton Public Schools decided to carry out a complex initiative at its two high schools known as “multilevel classrooms.”...