Michael Zwaagstra: The School You Attend Impacts You for a Lifetime

Michael Zwaagstra: The School You Attend Impacts You for a Lifetime
The notion that all public schools are equally good at educating students is demonstrably false, writes Michael Zwaagstra. shutterstock
Michael Zwaagstra
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As the school year winds down, many high school graduates are looking forward to their first year of post-secondary education in the fall. Everyone knows that some universities are better than others. That’s why students compete fiercely to get admitted to top-tier universities. A degree from a prestigious institution opens far more doors than the same degree from a lesser-known institution. We cannot pretend that these differences don’t exist.

Michael Zwaagstra
Michael Zwaagstra
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Michael Zwaagstra is a public high school teacher and a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute. He is the author of “A Sage on the Stage: Common Sense Reflections on Teaching and Learning.”
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