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She Couldn’t Read Her Own Diploma: Why Public Schools Pass Students but Fail Society

Even with record-high per-student spending, the broken status quo has left 1 in 5 Americans functionally illiterate. Schools refuse to reform.
She Couldn’t Read Her Own Diploma: Why Public Schools Pass Students but Fail Society
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A nineteen-year-old college student is suing her former high school for negligence because she graduated despite being unable to read or write.
Hannah Frankman Hood
Hannah Frankman Hood
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Hannah Frankman Hood is the founder of renegadeEducator. She grew up homeschooled and skipped college to go straight into the startup world, and has now been working in alternative education for almost 10 years. She was previously a Program Manager at Praxis, a Hazlitt Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education, and an instructor at The Objective Standard institute.
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