Pension/Benefits Reform a Hit with New Jerseyans
September 27, 2011NJ’s Poor Rural Districts Kvetch, “What Are We? Chopped Liver?”
September 28, 2011Quote of the Day
Powerful piece by Kati Haycock, “Look to Schools to Solve the Achievement Gap:”
It’s “easy to blame low achievement among these students on uninvolved parents or the burdens of poverty and race…But while the achievement gap has roots outside of schools — serious ones that we must address — it has solutions inside the school walls.”
The shameful truth about America’s public schools system is this: If you’re a young person of color or come from a poor or working-class family, you stand a pretty high chance of getting a second-rate education.
In fact, the latest national data show that more than half of all African-American and Latino fourth-graders are unable to read at even a basic level. And, math skills of low-income eighth-graders are more than twice as likely to be below basic as those of their more affluent classmates
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