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Leadership and flexibility, not buses, improve schools

  December 15, 2011

The rise of the Samuel Mason elementary school in Roxbury challenges many assumptions about Boston schools: That those in poor neighborhoods are the worst; that outside resources flow more readilly to schools in richer neighborhoods; that low-income kids in black areas of the city get a better education if they leave their communities. In 2011, race isn’t an indelible line of demarcation, and buses don’t drive quality.

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