The announcement that Starbucks would offer all of its 135,000 employees $10,000 worth of free education at Arizona State University has crowded out a lot of really depressing news about the state of public education. Whether it's California's Supreme Court ruling that teacher tenure is unconstitutional or the Common Core marching on in spite of Diane Ravitch's relentless exposés, people were looking for some good news to counter the incessant chorus of voices insisting that American education is in a crisis.
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