Daily Journal

Hunt Got It Wrong

By John Hood

Jan. 22nd, 2014

RALEIGH — If state leaders want to improve North Carolina’s education system in the future, they will have to begin with a better understanding of the history of school reform in our state.

Unfortunately, the current education debate has become more about political gamesmanship than sound reasoning. Exhibiting the natural human tendency to embrace information that fits one’s preconceived notions — a phenomenon known as “selection bias” — many politicians have drawn invalid conclusions about the history of North Carolina education reform.

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