by Robert Freeman.
"If America wants better education, it needs to fix the greatest force undermining education, which is poverty. The single most powerful predictor of student performance is the average income of the zip code in which they live. But one out of four American students now live in poverty, and the numbers are growing. One out of two will live in poverty sometime during their lives. Forty-seven million Americans are on food stamps. Is it any wonder American school performance is faltering?"
Read it in its full context here - http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/29-0.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
-
And unhappiness. Let's start the latter first; to get it out of the way. I realize that a great deal of what makes me unhappy in my life...
-
https://realleecamp.substack.com/p/ai-execs-admit-to-the-largest-labor
No comments:
Post a Comment