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The Cost of Child Poverty: $500 Billion a Ye...

July 30, 2013 Written by admin
The Cost of Child Poverty: $500 Billion a Year

The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss writes about a new report from ETS (Educational Testing Service) that sheds light on the economic and educational effects of poverty. Writes Strauss, “The report also discusses modern education reform and its effects on the educational outcomes for poor children. It says that reform that fails to address the issue […]

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Hickory, Catawba School Boards Condemn Cuts Made by Legislatu...

July 30, 2013 Written by admin
Hickory, Catawba School Boards Condemn Cuts Made by Legislature

In the Hickory Daily Record: “Catawba County Schools and Hickory Public Schools boards heard on Monday the same laments about the state budget likely to be passed in Raleigh and what it does to educational funding. ‘If you value larger classes and fewer adults working with our children; less instructional supplies and no pay increases […]

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Demographic Change Amplifies Importance of Academic Achieveme...

July 22, 2013 Written by admin
Demographic Change Amplifies Importance of Academic Achievement

“A lot of people think demographics alone will bring about change and it won’t,” said Gail Christopher, who heads the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s America Healing project on racial equity. “If attitudes and behaviors don’t change, demographics will just mean we’ll have a majority population that is low-income, improperly educated, disproportionately incarcerated with greater health disparities.” Read the […]

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Malala’s U.N. Speech is Just the Beginni...

July 15, 2013 Written by admin
Malala’s U.N. Speech is Just the Beginning

As the saying goes, “out of the mouths of babes.”  You may remember sixteen-year old Pakistani Malala Yousafzai–shot by the Taliban for advocating that all girls in her country receive a free education.  Healing from her wounds, Malala spent her 16th birthday at the United Nations, calling for “free, compulsory education” for every child around […]

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