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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

As national exams show American school children falling further behind, what if the failure

isn't that we don't know how to teach reading, writing, and especially arithmetic, but that the

powers that be refused to do what works? That's the argument of our special guests today.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We're delighted to be joined by Roland Fryer, a professor of economics at Harvard,

a founder of Equal Opportunity Ventures, and a WSJ contributor,

among other distinguished hats that he wears.

Our topic today is his latest column in the journal under the headline,

The Economics of Education Reform.

It was well-timed, posted right as the latest national standardized tests

showed that last year, 45% of 12th graders performed to be low basic in math.

32% were below basic in reading.

And remember, these are 12th graders, seniors, preparing to go out into the world of college

or the workplace.

But here is what you write, Professor Fryer, quote,

the nation is facing the largest educational crisis in a generation, and that isn't

even the real tragedy. The tragedy is that we already know what works, unquote. So welcome and to begin,

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