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As someone married to an educator who has taught in poverty level schools almost exclusively, it doesn't matter what you do to kids in school for the education system. The only thing that affects how kids will perform in school and in life is their quality of upbringing at home.

No teacher is a miracle teacher like in the movies that can rescue a child in kindergarten that has been almost entirely ignored their whole lives by their parents.

With the obvious exception of those with mental disabilities, the worst students are going to be those with the worst home lives that either get beaten, ignored entirely, dont know where their next meal is coming from, or taught bad values overall (my wife had a student who's mother was a professional criminal and took her son on robberies to teach him the family trade).

Want to fix education in America? First fix poverty, then educate parents, and then maybe pray that those educated parents no longer in poverty start to care about and take care of their children.

A child in kindergarten/first grade and beyond that is succeeding is not because of a teacher but because of educational and value based support at home as well as a full belly and wanting for no basic needs

And success or failure at those years is what basically determines the path their life in education (and most often into adulthood) will follow from that point on