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In Defense of ‘Paternalism’: Why Choice Schools Need to Get Better at Grappling With the Family Lives of Their Toughest-Case Students

By Naomi Schaefer Riley

February 23, 2020

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Naomi Schaefer Riley is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, and author of six books and hundreds of articles.

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