Larry Cuban Education Summary

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Larry Cuban who is a former educator of social studies and superintendent, has an interesting stance on education. He made strong points on why today’s education system is doing terrible. Cuban thinks that the teaching method in schools is flawed because the school board only teach us that going to college is the only way to get a good future. Although he had some valid points, Cuban failed to to make his point credible by not citing his sources. And without proof that his facts are legitimate, we have no way of knowing if Cuban is just barfing up facts to make his point.
The first instance is when Larry Cuban was talking about how many students enrolled in a community college graduates, but the readers have no way of knowing if that fact

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