Here’s my column from today’s paper. As you can tell from the opening, I thought I’d have an inbox full of haters this morning. But so far, all positive responses:
I know this column will be misunderstood, so let me be clear from the start: Dallas’ School for the Talented and Gifted is a terrific school.
TAG, as it’s known, is the school system’s bright shining star. If I had kids, I’d be happy to send them there. Great teachers, great students — the whole nine. Don’t interpret anything that follows as a criticism of the school.
But to claim, as Newsweek did recently, that it’s the best high school in America is silly. It stretches the boundaries of reason.
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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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