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

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                <h1>In Defense of ‘Paternalism’: Why Choice Schools Need to Get Better at Grappling With the Family Lives of Their Toughest-Case Students</h1>

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                <p class="sans">By <a rel="author" href="https://www.the74million.org/contributor/550876/">Naomi Schaefer Riley</a></p>

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