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A Twin Cities speech by Abigail Thernstrom, author of 

No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning.

  Thernstrom says this is the central civil rights issue of our time.  She spoke Thursday at the Center of the American Experiment.

A Twin Cities speech by Abigail Thernstrom, author of No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning.  Thernstrom says this is the central civil rights issue of our time.  She spoke Thursday at the Center of the American Experiment.


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